约翰·戴蒙德被一个意想不到的问题难住了。
美国科学家贾里德·戴蒙德认为，拉帕努伊人，即波利尼西亚定居者的后代，破坏了他们自己的环境。
US scientist Jared Diamond believes that the Rapanui people—descendants of Polynesian settlers—wrecked their own environment.
戴蒙德写道，他们的孤立文明的崩溃，是“我们未来可能面临的最糟糕的情况”。
The collapse of their isolated civilization, Diamond writes, is a "worst-case scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our own future".
戴蒙德认为他们把摩艾石像放在木制雪橇上，然后拖过原木轨道，但这需要很多木材和人力。
Diamond thinks they laid the moai on wooden sledges, hauled over log rails, but that required both a lot of wood and a lot of people.
戴蒙德将其解释为敌对酋长的权力展示，他们被困在一个偏远的小岛上，没有其他方式可以维护自己的统治地位。
Diamond interprets them as power displays by rival chieftains who, trapped on a remote little island, lacked other ways of asserting their dominance.
但是戴蒙德并没有试图进一步证明市场的完美性。
But Diamond wasn't out to further prove the perfection of markets.
当洛马斯在拼命工作的时候，在曼哈顿，神情沮丧的戴蒙德正和妻子女儿一起前去吃饭。
While Lomas was beavering away a dejected Diamond was going for dinner with his wife and daughter in Manhattan.
因此，戴蒙德想出了另外一个计划，希望巴菲特能提供担保，以便推动交易顺利进行。
So he had come up with another plan, one in which Buffett would provide insurance that might make it all work.
瓦利和戴蒙德2009年都拒绝了第二年的红利，即使下半年的盈利相当于去年同期的一倍多。
Varley and Diamond declined bonuses for a second year in 2009, even after second-half profit more than doubled from the year-earlier period.
“我可以从戴蒙德的声音中听出沮丧和愤怒，”鲍尔森先生说道。
"I could hear frustration, bordering on anger, in Diamond's voice," Mr Paulson reports.
26岁的乔纳森戴蒙德，与其说是男子汉，倒不说是个大男孩，至少在小说的开头是这样，当然不仅仅是因为和父母住在一起。
Jonathan Dymond is 26, though more boy than man, at least at the start, and not just because he lives with his parents.
戴蒙德宣称自己将继续坚持采用零售经营的多元化银行策略。
Mr Diamond said he would stick with the strategy of running a diversified bank with retail operations.
戴蒙德先生似乎对于确切的划分不感兴趣—“我们不要拘泥在精确的数字上，”他说。
Mr Diamond seems less keen on this exact split - "let's not get hung up on precise Numbers," he says.
杰拉德·戴蒙德在他的著作《崩溃》中展示了生态危机为什么往往是社会大灾难的前奏(6)。
In his book Collapse, Jared Diamond shows how ecological crisis is often the prelude to social catatrosphe(6).
戴蒙德先生，在雷曼银行的收购交易之后搬到纽约，现在又从纽约搬回伦敦，他回绝了此类无稽之谈。
Mr Diamond, who is relocating back to London from New York, where he moved after the Lehman deal, rejects such hysterical talk.
至少，戴蒙德几年之前是那么告诉我的。
杰里·德尔密斯耶和里奇·瑞西两人将担任戴蒙德曾监管的投资银行部门的联席总裁。
Jerry del Missier and Rich Ricci will become co-CEOs of the investment banking unit that Diamond oversaw.
6月6日，诺贝尔经济学奖得主彼得•戴蒙德被提名加入美联储董事会，但由于在国会上遭到共和党人的反对，其提名最终被撤销。
On June 6th Peter Diamond withdrew his name from consideration for appointment to the Federal Reserve board after his nomination drew opposition from congressional Republicans.
尽管如此，戴蒙德先生接管了一个与纯粹的投资银行依然相距甚远的银行。
Yet for all this Mr Diamond is taking over a firm that is still a very long way from being a pure investment bank.
今日声明中称，戴蒙德，现年59岁，在瓦利明年三月正式离职前自下月起将任职副总裁。
Diamond, 59, will become deputy CEO next month before Varley steps down at the end of March, the l ender said in a statement today.
1994年莫特森和皮萨里·德斯在戴蒙德工作的基础上发表了一篇文章，此文章揭示了当失业率增长速度为多快时会引起一个负面的，能够自我强化的循环圈的发生。
A 1994 paper by Mortensen and Pissarides, which builds on work by Diamond, showed how sharp rises in unemployment can cause a negative, self-reinforcing cycle to set in.
巴菲特认为，这个交易计划听起来过于复杂，他很难通过一个简短电话搞清楚。因此巴菲特让戴蒙德把具体交易计划通过传真发给他。
It was all too complicated for Buffett to take in in a quick phone call, so he asked Diamond to fax him the details.
作为英国第三大银行，巴克莱银行近日任命罗伯特·戴蒙德继约翰·瓦利之后，担任银行总裁。
Barclays Plc, Britain's third - largest bank, named President Robert Diamond chief executive officer, succeeding John Varley.
戴蒙德先生有两道防线。
由于地处偏僻，纳瓦霍人还得以在同西班牙以及美国定居者做交易的同时保留自己相对的独立性，亚瑟和戴蒙德写道。
That remoteness also allowed them to remain relatively independent while trading with Spanish and American settlers, Arthur and Diamond argue.
此后几十年合作生涯，布鲁贝克的双手和弦以及保守运用切分音的演奏风格，同戴斯蒙德流动而抒情的柔和声线交相辉映，配合默契。
For decades to come, Brubeck's two-handed chordal playing and sparing use of syncopation would beautifully complement Desmond's floating and lyrical lines.
此后几十年合作生涯，布鲁贝克的双手和弦以及保守运用切分音的演奏风格，同戴斯蒙德流动而抒情的柔和声线交相辉映，配合默契。
For decades to come, Brubeck's two-handed chordal playing and sparing use of syncopation would beautifully complement Desmond's floating and lyrical lines.
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