这就是现状，被称为“玩具人”的专家Chris Byrne的说：“想想要让全家四口人一起去看电影的花费，就能明白为什么桌面游戏会受欢迎了。”

That's especially true now, according to industry specialist Chris Byrne, also known as the "Toy Guy": "Considering what it would cost for four people to go to the movies, board games are a deal!"

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这就导致很多美国人骨子里就是不安于现状、漂泊不定而且野心勃勃的人。

As a result, many Americans were inveterately restless, rootless, and ambitious people.

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实际上，要认真回答这个问题的话，那就是绝大多数会议都打着提供“学习”机会的幌子，实其实不过是让大家补课了解现状。 这就是为什么这些会议无聊得让alpha极客们（译注：alpha geek，顾名思义，也就是专玩alpha版走在技术潮流最前沿的人）郁闷到直想做俯卧撑！

The factual, serious answer is that most conferences pretend to provide an opportunity to "learn" by catching up with the status quo, and that's why they bore alpha geeks to tears.

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And I think it's possible to see that one of the purposes of this poem is precisely to correct that situation.

我们可以看到他这首诗歌的目的之一,就是去改变现状。

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It's still--they can make losses for a long time before they're in trouble, so presumably there won't be a problem, but in principle there could be and so that's the kind of issue that we have now.

在陷入困境之前的很长一段时间内,他们可以承受亏损,也可以假设不会有任何问题发生,但是原则上讲是有可能会出问题的,这就是我们面临的现状

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