For many Japanese, Toyota's crisis serves to further highlight the fragility of Japan's current position: If your soft power dissipates, it leaves you feeling very vulnerable indeed.

对很多日本人来说，丰田危机将进一步突显日本目前地位的脆弱性：如果你失去了软实力，那么你将真真切切地感受到你的脆弱无助。

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It can be very hard to think rationally when you're feeling so vulnerable and alone.

在你感到如此脆弱和孤单的时候很难理性地思考问题。

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You have to be very alert when you are at your most vulnerable, especially when you are depressed or feeling isolated.

在你最容易受到伤害的时候，你必须非常警惕，尤其是当你感到孤独的时候。

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However, interestingly, there is no evidence that more private-equity-owned companies went bust in the great recession of 2008-9 than other kinds of firms - although there is plenty of evidence of private-equity-owned companies with large debts feeling very vulnerable.

BBC: The financial lessons of Southern Cross

But first I want to ask about this: How will it affect politics that you have all of these Democrats who won in Republican leaning districts and will be very vulnerable and perhaps feeling very vulnerable the next couple of years?

NPR: Democrats Storm Back from Oblivion