Americans have been living high on borrowed money (the savings rate dropped from 7.6 percent in 1992 to less than zero in 2005) while financiers built castles in the air.

美国人民是依赖贷款享受高品质生活的(存款率自1992年的7.6%下跌到2005年的负数)，而与此同时金融家们又在这个基础上研发了各种各样的金融衍生品。

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If there were no air drag — remember we dropped - an apple early on from three meters — it will hit the floor at about 780 milliseconds.

如果没有空气阻力-，记得早些时候，我们从3m处扔苹果-，在780毫秒以后，会掉到地上。

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Close by two more were dead or dying, dropped by high-speed projectiles from the Karbarrans' air rifles.

旁边的另外两个被卡巴拉人气动枪的高速射弹所击倒，死掉了或者是已经垂死了。

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More water was dropped from the air onto a wildfire at Kishorn in the west Highlands.

BBC: Wildfire

He dropped out of college, was discharged from the Air Force prematurely and has held a series of odd jobs ranging from airport baggage handler to truck driver.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The drug-laced mice will be taped to pieces of cardboard, which in turn will be attached to streamers that will be dropped from helicopters over more than 100 acres of the Air Force base on the Pacific island.

CNN: Deadly mice to rain down on Guam snakes