The thing about corporate America--few people that go to college, like where you are now, and most people in America don't realize how poorly most of our companies are run in this country, with many exceptions.

美国企业的问题是--没有什么人,上过大学，没人去过像你们现在所在的地方，很多在美国的人怀揣着对美国企业的希望,并没有意识到大多数我们的企业，经营的有多糟糕。

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So the exceptions are useful when you want to have the ability to say, I expect in general this kind of behavior, but I do know there are some other things that might happen and here's what I'd like to do in each one of those cases. But I do want to make sure that I don't let a value that I'm not expecting pass through.

所以当你希望有能力说,我希望一般是这样的行为,异常是很有用的,但是我明白还有一些其它的情况可能发生,我希望对每一种情况都这么做,但是我跟希望能保证,没有让一个预期之外的情况漏过去。

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