We had a big scare in 1998; it started with the Asian financial crisis and then it spread to Russia and there was this terrible collapse in Russia in 1998, when the government couldn't pay its debts.

我们经历过最大的一次经济创伤是在1998年;,这次金融危机因亚洲金融危机而起,然后蔓延到俄罗斯,随后对俄罗斯的经济产生了极大地冲击，俄政府担负不起债务。

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The Salem Fire Corporation showed up with its trucks and watched the house burn, just making sure that it didn't spread.

塞伦消防公司迅速开着消防车来到现场,眼睁睁看着房子烧掉，只是确保它不会蔓延。

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If you take a bunch of pennies and you spread them out, you don't get more pennies.

如果你把一卷硬币全部摊开,你不会得到更多的硬币

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The idea is that if you spread risks they don't disappear, they're still there, but they're spread out over many people and the impact on any one person is reduced.

这种观念就是说如果你把风险分散...,风险仍然存在,并没有消失,但如果风险分散到许多人身上,那每一个人受到风险的冲击就会减少

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Certainly it seems more and more clear that what we call "normal" in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread " that we don't even notice it ordinarily."

显然，我们平常称之为'正常'的东西“,在心理学上，实际是种大众精神病理，看上去平平无奇却又非常广泛,我们甚至没有注意到它“

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In the Savings and Loan crisis it was a certain segment of the banking community--the S&L's that seemed to be in trouble but it didn't seem to be then a house of cards that could spread around the country and around the world.

在储贷危机中，只是银行机构中的,一个特定部分-储蓄和存款,陷入了困境,但是这似乎不是一个,能够延伸至整个国家,和整个世界的不切实际的无法实现的计划。

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