So you're trading one devil which is the dilution that you might take, for another devil which is having the bank as your partner.

所以，这就是在两件棘手的事中做交易，一方面是有可能的股本权益下降，另一方面是让银行成你的合伙人。

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Now when harvest time came the devil appeared and wanted to take away his crop, but he found nothing except the yellow withered leaves, and the happy peasant dug up his turnips.

现在收获的季节到了，魔鬼又来了，要求收回属于他的收成。但除了那些枯黄的败叶外，他一无所获；而农夫却在兴高采烈地挖着他的萝卜。

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Each was out to get what he could forhimself, and devil take the hindmost.

每个人都挖空心思得到他所能得到的，俗话说“落后者遭殃”（Devil take the hindmost）。

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I'm a propagandist for the idea that if everybody says, "The devil take the hindmost, " the devil soon works his way to the head of the line.

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Once you breach that wall, God help you, and the devil take the hindmost.

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