Some spending has gone up a little bit as a proportion of GDP ... But it worked. It did work. You cut the taxes... But it then fell apart in 2001.

尽管有些支出，按GDP的比例有过小幅增长,但毕竟奏效了，事实摆在那里，先减税。,但好景不长，到2001年就不行了。

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That sounds good--it worked and these little things-- they may seem like little things but they are technological advances.

这听起来不错而且很有效,这些小把戏...,这些看起来好像小把戏一般,但实际上它们是技术性的进步

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But here's how it worked--by the way, the word I have been using, colony is not a Greek word and really not appropriate for what the Greeks are up to.

大概是这样的,顺便说下,我说的殖民地,不是古希腊语,而且用于古希腊殖民不太贴切

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So in this case, the communication worked but am I right in thinking that the communication isn't such an instant solution as it was in the game we saw last time?

在这个博弈中,交流起到了作用,但是能说这和上一讲的博弈一样吗,交流并没能直接给出解决的方案

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So it would have been nice to have this at a later hour but this was the only time that really worked into the schedule, so I appreciate you being here.

所以,如果能晚一点上课当然好,但这是课程表唯一能排出来的时间,所以我很高兴你们能来上课

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This system has worked well for twenty years now but it is being superseded by another Basel Convention -Basel II -which has been going on for some years now.

至今这个体系已经良好运作了20年,但是它即将被另一个巴塞尔公约所取代,新巴塞尔协议,其实它已经实施了好几年

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But it's worked on your brain to the point where you get to that sort of what I like to think of that bar room militancy, whereby if a guy says, "would you pass the peanuts," you say, "oh yeah!"

这会作用于你的大脑,让你达到一种,我认为的,在酒吧里准备打架的状态,就像如果有人说,"请你把花生递给我",你会说,"哦耶"

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The London Times, in 1889, said this is going to be a fiasco, there are going to be so many mistakes, and there are going to be so many complaints that this whole system is going to crumble and fall; but it didn't, it actually worked.

伦敦时报在1889年，曾预言这绝对行不通，将会有许多大大小小的问题，人们会对此怨声载道,然后整个体系土崩瓦解;,然而这些都未发生，这个体系运转良好。

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