Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask?

还记得面具后面的橡皮筋不？

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And this is where the rubber hits the road.

这是论战真正开始的地方。

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A car is just some metal, plastic, rubber.

汽车就是铁，塑胶，还有橡胶组成的。

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Companies did produce agreements to restrict, for example, the production of paper and the production of rubber, and the production of steel, and the production of iron, and the production of railway lines, actually, even quite complicated things.

公司之间的签署了限制产量的协议,比如说有造纸业,橡胶制造业,炼钢业,冶铁业,铁路运输行业,当然还有更复杂的行业

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If you think about it like a rubber band, maybe the more we can stretch the rubber band the better; but if you stretch too far and the rubber band snaps, that's not good, that's bad.

你可以想象一个橡皮筋,也许把它伸展得越长越好,但是你把它伸展得过长,以至绷断,那就不好,那很糟糕

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