And the relevance of that is investors have presupposed throughout the existence of these two entities that the government would be very hesitant to let them go down.

这就使得,投资者的前提是,在这两家公司的运营期内,政府会很犹豫,让他们倒闭。

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After the accident,we've got two people,Lefty and Righty, or two entities,Lefty and Righty, both of whom have Shelly Kagan's memories, beliefs,desires,goals,and so forth.

事故之后，一人化作两人或是两个实体，小左和小右，两人都有Shelly，Kagan的记忆，信念，欲望，目标以及种种。

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So the number two, the numbers, three, whatever it is, whatever they are, are these Platonic abstract entities that don't exist in space and time.

因而,数字2,数字3,不管它们是什么,至少它们都是不存在于时空中的,柏拉图式的抽象实体

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