Alcohol relaxes, shuts down those parts of the brain.

酒精使得这些脑组织变得松懈,甚至是停止运作

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who is really slacking. You notice dirt piling up or just weird things.

谁工作松懈。你会看到成堆的垃圾或者很奇怪的事情。

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The idea that emerged the memory of the '81-82 recession is very strong in our imagination because we think that it was caused by lax monetary policy by liberal thinking by the soft-hearted liberals who just didn't want to create any pain and suffering.

出现的观点,在我们的想象中,81-82年的经济衰退很严重,因为我们认为它是由于,松懈的货币政策，不拘一格的思想,那些仁慈的不想制造任何痛苦和疲劳的,自由主义者引发的。

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