"Crises don't burn themselves out,". "Crises this severe don't burn themselves out.

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If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.

如果你知道自己还剩下50年，你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯，英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄，你就会为自己选择另一种生活。

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And the cause of some thermodynamics have even been applied to economics, systems out of equilibrium, like big companies like Enron, you know, completely out of equilibrium, crash and burn.

热力学中的一些观点,甚至被应用到经济学中，非平衡态系统，比如像安永那样大公司,彻底偏离平衡态,最后破产了。

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