When I objected to my English friends that this mad cycle of borrowing and spending would have to be paid for one day, they told me I was a pessimist.

当我反对我的英国朋友们指出这种借与花的疯狂循环迟早会遭到报复时，他们告诉我我是个悲观主义者。

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Despite his literary moniker, the eponymous hero of "Lord Byron" is unlikely to be accused of being mad, bad or dangerous to know.

尽管有着拜伦勋爵这个绰号，在人们看来，以此为名的主演却不太可能会被认为是个疯狂，难以了解，或是危险的人。

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Ancient Romans, it seems, believed that the bite of a mad dog could only be cured by burning the dog's hair and drinking it with water.

古罗马人似乎相信，被疯狗咬了以后，只能烧掉那只狗身上的毛，加在水里喝下去，才会治好。

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The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits.

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Bill Murray plays Steve Zissou, an old-style explorer of the seas, who could easily be a mad American cousin, twice removed, of Jacques Cousteau.

NEWYORKER: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Many think it would be mad to imperil this proven source of economic growth.

ECONOMIST: Student visas

Quite simply, these newspapers seem to me to be mad to turn down the idea of making more money for nothing.

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