I do not know what else to do but make the best of a bad deal and shake hands over it."

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My first advice is if you want to make money, which I don't particularly advise, but if you do it's not a bad idea to go into finance.

我的第一个建议是,如果你想赚些钱,虽然我并不鼓励,但如果你要赚钱,那从事金融并不是个坏主意

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The whole idea of insurance is that you take from your good years and you move it into your bad years so that you make it through all your years.

保险的中心思想是,牺牲好年景的部分财富为坏年景提供保障,这样你就不再忧虑年景的好坏

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Although it would make me very, very sad to discover this, I suppose it's possible some of you have such bad lives that moving on to the experience machine would be a step up.

虽然我会很难过，我想你们中有些人一生不顺,连接上体验机器可能是个好转。

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But other people, in fact probably a larger percentage, default to the top option here: that these are personal health issues rather then public health issues; that people are making choices about what they eat, if they make bad choices it's their fault.

不过另一些人,确切说是很大一部分人,把问题归咎于以上几个选项,这是个人健康问题而不是公共健康问题,人们自由选择想吃的东西,即使做了不正确的选择也是他们自己的错

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But although I've been at pains to say this is the fundamental bad thing about death, I think it's arguable that-- I think one could make the case that this isn't the only bad thing about death, even if we're focusing on why is death bad for me?

但是虽然我一直在努力阐述,这是死亡的基本坏处，我觉得-,人们有理由认为,这不是死亡的唯一坏处，就算我们重点思考为何死亡对我是坏事？

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But the FSLIC wasn't; it was sleeping at the switch, so it allowed banks in the United States -it was primarily Savings and Loans who did this -to make bad loans and they were playing this moral hazard game.

但是FSLIC没有如此,制度变换初期他们对一切放任不管,于是这让美国的银行...,主要指的是那些储蓄贷款机构...,发放不良贷款,他们开始参与这项充满道德风险的游戏

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If we could find the right F, and make out the argument, the physicalist can't explain it or does a bad job of explaining it and the dualist does a better job of explaining it, we'd have reason to believe in the soul.

如果我们能找到合适的特性F,并且给出论证,物理主义者无法解释,或者解释得很牵强,而二元论的解释更合理,那么我们就有理由相信有灵魂存在

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