来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：博弈论 第13集 第13集》

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  One of the things that we do in that law is we limit the degree
  在该法令中我们有些条款来限制
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  to which we're allowed to punish the borrowers.
  借方无力清偿时所受的惩罚
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  So bankruptcy law pretty much says
  破产法通俗的讲就是
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  we're going to put some limit on how much
  斯蒂文携午餐费逃跑
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  Katie can inflict pain on Steven for running off with the lunch money.
  凯蒂可以对他做出多大惩罚进行了约束
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  Steven can simply say I can't repay, I'm bankrupt,
  斯蒂文可以说我无力偿还了 我破产了
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  and he's more or less allowed to have a fresh start.
  然后他差不多就又可以重新开始了
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  So the law would be good here but there's limits to what we can do.
  法律确实起作用 但是作用有限
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  We could go back to the Dickensian world
  我们可以回到狄更斯的年代
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  of throwing Steven in jail for not repaying the loan,
  让不还钱的斯蒂文去坐牢
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  but it's tough. There are down sides to that it turns out.
  但这太强硬了 会引起一些不良后果的
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  So what else could we do?
  我们还能怎么办