If trouble comes, it is better to let it come now than at some later time."

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The only objection to be made to it perhaps indeed is that much of the time, it's just more trouble than it's worth to enforce it.

唯一存疑的地方可能是,在大多数时间，实行它太麻烦了。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.

在陷入困境之前的很长一段时间内,他们可以承受亏损,也可以假设不会有任何问题发生,但是原则上讲是有可能会出问题的,这就是我们面临的现状

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So just one after another they made these insane departures from the corrective devices d put in the last time we had a big trouble and they really worked quite well.

因此，它们一个接一个地背离了,上一次金融危机时,采用的矫正手段，we’,并且这些手段是有帮助的。

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