He was adding to his earnings by selling short stories and by working from time to time on movies in Hollywood.

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You could think, you have to think earnings are going to go up twelve-fold to get it down to four times earnings, which will take a long, long time.

你可能会想，你必然认为收益会上涨12倍,让它回落到四倍于原来收益的地方，会花费很长一段时间。

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For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

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