The government will probably spend less than it thought on the financial system.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

We have a good system in taxes, but it's imperfect because it hasn't been thought out thoroughly in terms of risk management.

我们有很好的税收制度，但它并不完善,因为它并非完全从风险管理的角度,经过考量而得出的。

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because they thought that it was a good system to begin with.

因为他们知道这个制度很适合从头开始决定事情。

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"It was always thought that you needed a little bit of something to get the system going.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

They thought they had the system solved, but then they had a bank run last year.

他们认为已经系统性解决了挤兑问题,但去年却又出现了银行挤兑

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"I thought that the American medical system was going to take away my life savings and essentially ruin any prospects I had for a pleasant retirement after the operation."

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Well, the thought, I suppose is, in philosopher's jargon, that the computer is a deterministic system.

对于这个观点,我认为,以哲学的语言可以表达为,电脑是个决定论的系统

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After six Eurostar trains broke down in or near the tunnel that runs under the English Channel, the system has been suspended while engineers troubleshoot the electrical problems thought to have been brought on by condensation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

Why did an inhumane institution of course not everybody who defended it thought it was inhumane but why did that system survive, persist and grow?

为什么一个不人道的制度,当然不是所有捍卫它的人都觉得不人道,为什么奴隶制度还是会生根,发芽,成长

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And the thought, of course, is that the robot or the computer is a deterministic system and you can't have free will if you're a deterministic system.

那个想法,当然,是说机器人和电脑只是一种决定论的系统,而如果你是个决定论系统的话,就不可能有自由意志

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