They are individualists who build strong communities and pull together in a crunch. They have a national allergy to earnestness.

他们是个人主义者，他们建立起了强大的社会团体，他们在危难之时万众一心，他们把诚实正直奉为民族的圭臬。

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Today, however, many energy projects are starved of capital because of the credit crunch, energy prices are low and the yen is strong.

然而，如今许多能源项目由于信贷紧缩造成资金匮乏，能源价格低迷且日元走强。

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The best argument for the second view, that the resource crunch is real but temporary, is the strong resemblance between what we're seeing now and the resource crisis of the 1970s.

对第二种观点的论点是资源减少虽然是事实但却是暂时的。对与这一点最好的支持在于比较我们现在所见的资源短缺和上世纪七十年代的资源危机之间的相同之处。

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And while DRAM is strong enough to handle complex software, it's slow: When the PC needs to crunch numbers, it must resort to far faster memory cache, also called SRAM (static random access memory).

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And while DRAM is strong enough to handle complex software, it ain't so swift: When the PC needs to crunch numbers, it must resort to far faster memory cache, also called SRAM (static random access memory).

FORBES: Total Recall