You know sometimes when you're losing and you redouble and you keep hoping to win back what you've lost?

你们知道,有时你输了就会把赌注加倍,并且总想把失去的都赢回来

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Clearly, if I did nothing more, but I took every car, doubled its fuel economy, its emissions would go to 50% of what they are now, no other changes being made.

显然，如果我什么也不做，但是我把没量车的汽油价加倍，汽车废气排放量就会是现在的一半了，别的不会有什么改变。

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