And, in fact, it kind of looks like a function, and yet here's a semicolon I just said that can get you into trouble, and yet that's not actually a function, because there's no interesting lines of code, because it turns out the interesting code is down here at the bottom.

实际上，它有点像一个函数，并且这里有一个能够使你陷入麻烦当中的分号,那个事实上也不是一个函数，因为这里没有有用的代码，因为,有用的代码都在底端。

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I thought it was very impressive that he put that on page one of the book because it puts the reader in a moral dilemma.

我觉得这种做法令人印象深刻,他把这个地址放在书的第一页,这会使读者陷入一种道德上的两难处境

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So you sort of endanger yourself.

这样你就使自己陷入了危险的境地。

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This was a tremendous embarrassment to the Bank of England and Mervyn King, who was a very good governor of the Bank of England; but this apparently took him by surprise.

这使英格兰银行及其行长金默文,陷入窘迫境地,虽然他曾是英格兰银行非常杰出的管理者,但这次挤兑显然出乎他的预料

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