来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革第8集第8集》

What's so hard about this?

为什么这么困难
What would make it hard to run Polaroid or Ford Motor Company?

使宝利来和福特汽车公司陷入困境
What--yes--

什么说
Because the assumptions that they--

因为他们做的假设
Polaroid to begin with was basically a research driven company,

宝利来本来是个研发型公司
and the assumptions that they were making the benchmark,

假设他们以此为基准
was that Polaroid is a research driven company,

现在宝利来还是个研发型公司
which in effect, was not correct,

这一点实际上是错的
because as the markets were changing,

因为市场变化了
it sapped all flexibility to be nimble

这使他们牺牲了变化的敏感性
and respond to the competition that instead.

和对市场竞争的应答
Okay, great.

好非常棒