That spurs yet more repayment so that, in Fisher’s words, the “liquidation defeats itself.”

这就会刺激更多的还款，用费希尔的话说“债务清偿是自我毁灭”。

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As long as positivism does not explain philosophies and theories, and the plans and policies derived from them, in terms of its stimulus-response scheme, it defeats itself.

既然实证主义不能解释哲学和理论，以及由此制定的计划和政策。那么其所谓的刺激—反应机制，就自证其错。

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He poured scorn on the notion that the U.S. thought of itself as a superpower "even after all these successive defeats."

他还讥笑美国“即使在接连战败之后”仍自视为超级大国的看法。

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Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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The prospect of serial defeats in Parliament, and thus of another general election in short order, might itself dissuade the Tories from attempting the unpopular measures that Britain's dire public finances necessitate.

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