The result is that when we want to dig ourselves out of a hole, we make decisions that a third-party observer could clearly identify as bad ones.

结果就是，如果我们在决策时，脑子里想着如何让自己摆脱困境，在第三方旁观者眼里，此时做出的决定明显是拙劣的。

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Collisions of whole galaxies would lead to black hole mergers. Not a bad way to generate fireworks and fuel growth.

整个星系的冲撞将会导致黑洞的合并，这是形成烟火和燃料增长的好办法。

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But as soon as one hole is filled, the economy-still bad, even if no longer technically in recession-digs another.

不过，虽然从理论上说经济已不再衰退，但从另一方面看，情况仍就不景气。一个缺口被补上，另一个缺口就又会出现。

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Bad bets blew a hole in Streisand's fund, BKP Partners, in mid-1998.

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Cut to a bad economy and a gaping hole in the state budget.

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We can all agree that digging a deeper hole is a bad thing.

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