Because if they work any harder than that, then the other person is just going to slack off instead.

因为我们知道如果自己超额完成工作,其他人就可以少做点工作了

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although I'm still, I'm still in the camp of cutting him some slack, as we say.

不过，我仍然属于愿意再给他一次机会的那部分人。

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So, there will be new municipal bond insurers appearing that will take up slack and we'll be all right but the problem is that we may have a crisis for a while.

新的市政债券保险公司将会出现,那样我们暂时可以松口气,但是问题是,次贷危机将会延续相当长的时间

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