World events, if you're caught in the middle of them, can either flatten you or lift you up.

如果你置身世界大事之中，它或者会让你表现平平，或者会助你兴奋崛起。

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So what if we somehow flatten our cone, push it a bit up so that it becomes completely flat?

但是什么都不会变，所以，如果我们把圆锥压扁？

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You take the potatoes and you just cut it up all different ways, and then you kind of mush it together and then flatten it and fry it and then you get a little potato pancake, flat pancake almost.

你拿着土豆，把它切成各种各样的条呀片呀，然后把它们挤压在一块，压成扁平状，再用油炸，然后你就可以做出一个小的土豆饼。

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It only took nature a few minutes to flatten gardens, beat up vehicles and damage buildings.

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Remember that interest rates rarely shift up in a parallel fashion, so the yield curve will probably flatten, with longer-maturity yields rising by less than one point.

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