The goal was to measure the AU; then, knowing the orbital speeds of all the other planets around the Sun, the scale of the Solar System would fall into place.

目标是测量 AU；随后，当我们知道了所有围绕太阳的其他行星的轨道速度，对太阳系的规模就有充分的认识了。

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But when asset prices started to fall, the whole system unravelled.

但是，当资产价格开始下降的时候，整个体系失效了。

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One Sunday night in fall 2007, the ventilation system in the kitchen stopped working, causing the room to overheat and the kitchen sprinklers to go off.

2007年秋季的一个周日晚上，厨房的换气系统出了故障，导致房间过热，触发了厨房的自动喷淋系统。

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The London Times, in 1889, said this is going to be a fiasco, there are going to be so many mistakes, and there are going to be so many complaints that this whole system is going to crumble and fall; but it didn't, it actually worked.

伦敦时报在1889年，曾预言这绝对行不通，将会有许多大大小小的问题，人们会对此怨声载道,然后整个体系土崩瓦解;,然而这些都未发生，这个体系运转良好。

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Now, if I was a person that was designing a vaccine and I noticed that this was the response that it got, that antibodies were produced, they reached some intermediate level, they started to fall, I would say, "Well I haven't stimulated the immune system enough, let me re-boost, let me give another dose of antigen."

现在,如果我正在研究一种疫苗,我注意到机体会对这种疫苗产生应答,也就是会产生抗体,当抗体浓度达到中等水平后,就开始下降,就可以说,疫苗对免疫系统刺激还不足,我需要提高抗原浓度,让我再把剂量再加大一倍

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Just because you develop a care need, it does not mean you will fall within the system.

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Those who study the solar system fall into the former camp.

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To those who believe athletes ought to be paid for their labor, Webber is the fall guy for a system that's horribly broken.

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