If one thing stands out from Mr Lewis's account of how a few individuals made fortunes from predicting the crisis, it is that it pays to be an outsider.

如果说刘易斯先生对少数人通过预测危机而发家致富的描述中有什么特别的东西的话，那就是人们花钱使自己成为局外人。

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The space race is not simply the objective search for knowledge it is often made out to be.

太空竞争的目的不单单是客观地探求知识，虽然它常常自命如此。

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Creativity is often made out to be a nebulous, messy, complicated, difficult thing, and it can be.

创造力常常假装成朦胧的，复杂的，艰难的甚至乱七八糟的东西。它可以是这样。

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But climate change skeptics have seized on the recent theft of thousands of private e-mail messages from computer servers at a British climate research center to cast doubt on whether global warming is as serious as it has been made out to be.

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It is empirically well established that devaluing your currency is not always the silver bullet it is made out to be in the press.

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Mr Pawar allayed fears of a drought and said that the situation is not "as serious as it is being made out to be".

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This point is not made to be critical or bash the experts, but to point out how impossibly difficult it is to be consistently correct, particularly when it comes to the stock market.

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