May 6 exposed frailties in u.s. markets that hadn 't been seen before .
5月6日的情况暴露出美国市场以前未曾被发现的脆弱性。
Just as economic booms amplify a country 's assets , so busts magnify their frailties .
正如经济繁荣会夸大一国的资产,衰退也会放大其脆弱。
The frailties in the us symbolised by yawning fiscal deficits have yet to be seriously addressed .
美国的脆弱性(以越来越大的财政赤字为标志)尚需得到认真应对。
Whatever the frailties of europe 's economies , america is in even worse shape .
不论欧洲经济有多么虚弱,美国经济处于甚至更为糟糕境地。
It 's more accurate to say that we have gone from a society that protected people from their frailties to a society that allows people to maximize their talents .
说得更准确点,我们的社会,以前是保护人的弱点,现在是让人最大的发挥自己的天分。
Computers may not have the human frailties ( like an aversion to taking losses ) that traditional fund managers display . But turning the markets over to the machines will not necessarily make them any less volatile .
Even a rational planner armed with all available information would have a tough time making smart choices . Add in the foibles and frailties of real human beings , and it 's easy to see why the college search process results in so many bad decisions by so many families .
At one extreme you can assume that people cannot be trusted to make the right decisions so you introduce top-down policies to counteract this ; at the other extreme you can believe that people understand their own frailties and at most you need to supply them with the tools to combat these problems .
The squeeze on credit could expose additional frailties in the microfinance model . Many observers suspect that at least some microfinance loans actually finance consumption , not investment , and that borrowers use new loans from one mfi to pay off their debts with another .