Short sellers bet on share prices going down rather than up and it is said that the pressure from a large number of them can push a stock into an unstoppable downward spiral.

所谓的股票卖空者就是那些下注股票下跌的人，据说大量的卖空者产生的压力可以迫使一只股票进入无法停息的螺旋下降。

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Most people are not particularly brave. When confronted by thugs threatening personal violence, they back down rather than stand up for themselves.

大部分人都不是那么勇敢，当面对一群威胁着要动粗的打手时，他们一般都会知难而退而不是奋起抗争。

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He also said that at a time when the world desperately needs a pro-growth strategy - closing down, rather than opening up markets - would be the worst possible thing to do.

他说，在这个世界急需增长策略的时刻，关闭市场、而非开放市场将会是最坏的行动。

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There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

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That is the way that fault operates as well." In other cases, the plates may move up and down, rather than from side to side.

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The clocks that count down rather than up and the use of penalty kicks to decide regular season matches may be gone, but MLS still insists on using a draft to allocate a good number of domestic players amongst its teams and a playoff system to decide its eventual champion.

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But these electronic platforms are limited in that they have been systematically built on communicating information down rather than information up.

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Unemployment is still way too high, and there's actually evidence that this quarter of the economy is actually slowing down rather than speeding up.

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