that it seems inconceivable that it could suffer a fate similar to that of Portugal or Greece.

考虑到后文的“粉碎上述想法”，我觉得是不是可以译为：人们都认为美国不可能遭受同葡萄牙、希腊一样的命运。

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This is a relatively simple and straightforward approach, but it could suffer from a few deficiencies under some scenarios.

这是一个比较简单且容易操作的方法，但是在有些场景下可能会有一些缺陷。

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America's economy is so large, and foreign appetite for greenbacks so voracious, that it seems inconceivable that it could suffer a fate similar to that of Portugal or Greece.

考虑到美国如此庞大的经济规模，以及国外对美元如此贪婪的胃口，似乎很难想象美国会遭受葡萄牙和希腊类似的命运。

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It could suffer the same fate as a similar measure Congress passed in 1976--and then repealed after an outcry.

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The Polish zloty has been tumbling on the foreign-exchange markets, losing 5% against the dollar in a day and raising fears that it could suffer the same speculative attacks as the Czech koruna suffered earlier in the year.

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And it could also suffer from what happens when network effects go into reverse.

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