Many elements of the system are Ponzi-like in that they depend on confidence-they would collapse if all investors demanded their stakes back-or they rely on new backers to keep them going.

这个系统中的许多要素都像庞式计划中的一样，它们依赖于投资者的信心，如果所有投资者都撤回他们的资金，这些要素就会崩溃，或者依靠新的投资者来使其继续运转。

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More important, software makers depend on the goodwill of outside developers, whom they rely on to keep updating their products.

更重要的是，开源软件制造商依靠外部程序员的良善意愿，因为正是这群人时常更新他们的产品。

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Accustomed to the weak, the heart will gradually weak up, used to rely on, will gradually forget how to depend on ourselves.

习惯了软弱，心也会逐渐软弱起来，习惯了依赖，会渐渐忘记如何依靠自己。

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It seems a pity that a country which used to rely on convention should need to depend increasingly on rules to keep politics honest especially if Lord Neill's hunch that there has in fact been no deterioration in standards is right.

ECONOMIST: A very British sleazebuster

As Peter Timmer, a fellow at the Centre for Global Development, points out, Asian nations were too big to rely on food imports and too proud to depend indefinitely on the food aid America offered in return for loyalty in the cold war.

ECONOMIST: Economics focus

Approaches that rely on operations performed by the user have a fatal flaw beyond the need to recognize what actions are required: they depend on computer input devices controlled by software which can be exploited in the same way that a remote desktop application does.

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