The exact shape of the curve is subject to discussion, but the point of diminishing marginal utility is that, as you get more and more money, the increment in utility for each extra dollar diminishes.

这条曲线的确切形状还有待讨论,但是边际效用递减规律的重点在于,你得到的钱越多,每额外的一美元的增长效用会相对减小

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And all of a sudden he had a crisis Well, I'm not going to get into the depth of it but our banks, because they wanted to make more and more money--and our investment bank, Wall Street--kept issuing different paper against mortgages so it made it simple to give a mortgage.

突然间危机降临在了他的头上,嗯~我不想继续深谈这个问题,但是我们的银行，由于它们想,赚越来越多的钱--还有我们的投行，华尔街--一直都在发行各种各样的抵押贷款票据,那样抵押贷款变得更加容易。

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There are many people who talk about this generation as the "ME" generation: all I care about, all this generation cares about is " "well,let me just make more money", " "let me just get a bigger house", "let me just be more successful and accrue more eclats, " more prestige".

很多人认为这一代人,以自我为中心，这一代人只关心,“赚更多的钱，“买大一点的房子，“更成功，取得更高荣誉，变得更有威望。

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The New York state regulators have been trying to get companies to subscribe more capital to the monoline insurance companies to bolster their capital so that they have more money to pay out; that will prevent any more lowering of their ratings.

纽约州的监管者试图请一些公司,向单线保险公司支援更多资金,以便他们能应付保险赔付要求,那样可以阻止进一步的降级

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