And that's also how people find ways to break the second law, because somehow they've messed up on what their system is.

这就说明了某些人是如何想到办法,“打破“第二定律的，因为他们以各种方式搞错了,他们的系统的定义。

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People somehow got the idea that Los Angeles is just this wonderful city and so they started bidding up real estate prices.

不知怎么的人们就认为,洛杉矶是一个美好的城市,而且他们开始竞相抬升房地产的价格

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But it's amazing, that every year you find somebody coming up with a way of going around the second law and somehow convincing people who are very smart that this will work.

但是很令人惊奇，每年你都能发现,有人宣称找到了,绕过第二定律的方法,还不知怎么地就说服了,一些非常聪明的人,让他们以为这个真的管用。

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One that seems to be in fashion these days, although you never know how long the fashion lasts, is: internal uprisings that somehow these monarchical areas, when life got tough, the people must have risen up against them.

有一个理论现在很流行,虽然不知道流行了多久,那就是认为,这些王国中起义的内部原因是,当民生困苦时,人们就必然奋起反抗

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In general, if you're watching an action movie and there's a car chase and the trucks and cars are crashing all over the place, and let's say a Budweiser truck shows up in the scene somehow, well people are very likely paying for that.

如果看一部动作电影中有汽车追踪,以及卡车和汽车到处碰撞的场景,就说在电影里出现的是百威的卡车,这家公司的人很有可能为这个场景花钱了

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It turned out to be kind of wrong because in the 1880s they started building so many houses in response to the demand that there was eventually a crash; but somehow people got this idea at some time.

结果证明这错了,因为在19世纪80年代,为迎合需求,他们建造了很多房屋,结果却崩溃了,但不知为何,人们有时就是会突发奇想

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