来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：博弈论 第21集 第21集》

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  often if you were bankrupt you were in jail, actually worse than that.
  如果你破产了你就要坐牢 其实更惨
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  Sometimes in the nineteenth century in England not only if
  在英国的十九世纪
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  you were bankrupt were you in jail
  如果你破产不仅要坐牢
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  but your creditors were having to pay the fees to feed you in jail.
  你的债权人还不得不 支付你坐牢的费用
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  So there you were sitting in jail,
  所以你坐在牢里
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  you weren't paying that money back to your creditor,
  你不仅无法给债权人还款
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  and you're actually costing money to your creditor by being in jail.
  你还会因为坐牢而花掉债权人的钱
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  This seems like a situation that you want to renegotiate your way out of.
  似乎这种情况你愿意重新谈判解决问题
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  You say, hey let's let these guys out of jail.
  你会说 把这些家伙放出来吧
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  Let them be productive again, and then they'll pay back part of the loans.
  让他们去工作 然后让他们还一部分债务
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  So you had these waves of bankruptcy reform in which
  通过这种行动改造破产法律
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  the debtors' prisons were closed down,
  可以让债务人监狱关门