We sometimes use this analogy of a kid's game called 'booby trap' where you have a bunch of little blocks and there's a spring piston and it pushes on them.
他说，“我们有时候把地震和小孩子们玩的一种叫做‘陷阱’的游戏做比较。”你有一些小砖块和一个活塞弹簧，弹簧挤着砖块。
I ran in and put my foot on the trap spring, mashed it down, and released his foot.
我跑上去踩下弹簧，松开它的脚。
Optimists bet on human ingenuity to spring the Malthusian trap, as it has done so often before.
乐观主义者押注人类智慧能突破马尔萨斯陷阱，就像过去已经多次发生的一样。
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