Just as Malthusians were wrong to assume that the productivity of crop-land was fixed, so pessimists are wrong to assume that a unit of spectrum can support only so many subscribers.

正如马尔萨斯学者认为农田的产量是固定的想法是错误的一样，悲观者认为单位频谱只能承载一定数量的电话用户的想法也是错误的。

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Better to have not had any of it, better to have not been born at all, say the pessimists, than to have this combination package of life followed by death.

最好还是什么都不要有，最好是根本就别出生，悲观主义者如是说，以免有生后即是死这样一个组合。

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The pessimists expect these figures to climb much higher, adding to supply and further depressing prices.

悲观者认为这些数字还会大大增加，从而使房屋供给进一步增加，房屋价格进一步下跌。

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Better to have not had any of it, better to have not been born at all, say the pessimists, than to have this combination package of life followed by death.

最好还是什么都不要有，最好是根本就别出生，悲观主义者如是说，以免有生后即是死这样一个组合。

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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But if China were to stall, the economic pessimists would be quick to reclaim Japan as their native land.

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In a direct contradiction to point 1, the pessimists suggest there is no meaningful alliance for China to balance against.

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It would take another three years before the addition of Chivas USA in Los Angeles and Real Salt Lake took the league back to an even dozen but still the pessimists out-numbered the optimists.

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