However, it is probably already too late for the leading Anglo-Saxon economies to escape lightly from the consequences of their property bubbles.

然而，主要的英美经济体要想轻易地摆脱房地产泡沫带来的后果，可能有点为时已晚。

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When you do something wrong, you must have the courage to bear the consequences. Don't quibble and escape responsibility.

当你做错事时，你要有敢于承担后果的勇气，不推诿，不狡辩；

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Bringing ethics into his analysis, Mr. Derman has no patience for coddling the folly of individuals and institutions who over-rely on faulty models and then seek to escape the consequences.

WSJ: Book Review: Models Behaving Badly

With the sun stabbing at them through their window blinds, the two old men struggled to their feet and lurched out onto their adjacent verandas, emerging at almost the same moment, like characters in an ancient tale, trapped in fateful coincidences, unable to escape the consequences of chance.

NEWYORKER: In the South

The easy solution of buying off Cyprus with cheap loans to fill the holes in its banks and repay its debt would have sent a signal that other countries could escape the consequences of unwise policies.

WSJ: Crisis Won't Hurt Euro Zone��Unless Cyprus Leaves