In my mind, it had become like the view of Emerald City just before Dorothy and the gang run through the poppies: a faux backdrop.

在我印象中，它曾经如同一座翡翠城，但后来桃乐西一伙跑过了罂粟花：一个人为的背景。

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I cannot prevent the slow tentacles of my mind from advancing one hypothesis at a time, exploring labyrinths of consequence that magnetic memories would run through in a nanosecond.

我缓慢的思维的触角只能一步步的推演假设，在因果逻辑的迷宫里缓步探索，而磁性内存遍历这一切只需要十亿分之一秒。

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It still boggles my mind to think that responsible businessmen would think that you could take junk mortgages and run them through your financial machines and have AAA rated bonds coming out the other side.

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