"Say, Joe," was his greeting to his old-time working-mate next morning, "there's a Frenchman out on Twenty-eighth Street." He's made a pot of money, and he's going back to France.

“我说，乔，”第二天早上他招呼当年一起干活的伙伴说，“二十八号街有一个法国人赚了一大笔钱，打算回法国。”

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This was a variant of what is known to economists as the common-pool-resource dilemma, which involves two people trying to divide a pot of money without knowing how much the other is asking for.

这个游戏是经济学家非常熟悉的“共同基金困境”(两人分一笔钱，不过彼此不知道对方要拿多少)的一个变种。

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He has earned a pot of money.

他赚了一大笔钱。

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He holds a silver tin of emerald-green spinach that could also be a pot of money.

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