If you had a wish, what would it be? If a genie arrived and granted you a wish, would it be a worthwhile one?

如果你有一个愿望，那会是什么呢？如果一个小精灵来到你的身边并许诺给你一个愿望，它会是一个有价值的愿望吗？

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Last week, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said the media mogul was engaged in a vain attempt to "put the genie back in the bottle" .

上周，Twitter创办人之一BizStone称，这位传媒巨头是在反其道而行之，这种行为无异于把放出来的精灵重新放回神灯中一样毫无意义。

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With gold gone the central bank becomes government's genie , able to grant it almost unlimited spending.

随着黄金的消退，中央银行就变成了政府手中的魔盒，几乎给它带来了无穷无尽的开销，想花多少就有多少。

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I'm sure they'll be quick to figure out how to stuff the genie back in the bottle (they always do).

我敢肯定他们会很快搞清楚怎么把妖怪塞回到瓶子里（他们总是这么做）。

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We act as if God is a giant genie -- just rub the lamp and whatever your wish is his command.

我们把神看为一个大精灵--他的职责就是实现我们的愿望，他要对我们唯命是从。

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We can never put the genie back into the bottle, but putting a hold on further development of this technology could limit the damage.

我们永远不能把精灵关回油灯里，但是暂缓这项技术的未来发展也许能够限制它的危害。

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Like a genie , they keep turning up, close by, catching your gaze.

像神怪一般的不断出现，越来越近的吸引着你的目光。

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As one top Wall Streeter laments, "We are all trying to put the compensation genie back in the bottle. "

一位资深华尔街人士哀叹道：“我们都在试图把薪酬魔鬼重新放回瓶子里。”

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Artistic fiction is the genie that is created by the author according to the real life. It must be based on real life;

艺术虚构是作家根据生活中存在的事物和生活固有的逻辑，通过想象，以构成艺术形象。

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So while the protectionist genie is not yet out of the bottle, it is kicking and pushing against the cork, trying to escape.

因此，虽然保护主义的妖孽尚未跳出瓶外，但其正敲打和挤推着瓶塞，试图挣脱出来。

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There were these4 guys, a Russian, a German, an American and a French, who found this small genie bottle.

有一名俄国人、名德国人、名美国人和一名法国人，4个找到这个小精灵瓶子。

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Genie Timeline. This software is for backing up your data on a physical disk.

这个软件是用来将数据备份到物理磁盘上的。

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Like the legend of the snake-shaped genie who protects the gold from prospectors and holy men trying to exorcise it with tricks and prayers.

这里的晚上充满着噪声和故事。传说中蛇妖保护黄金，淘金者和虔诚的人试图用巫术和祷告来驱除妖魔。

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The risk is that by letting the genie out of the bottle, uncontrollable political forces could be unleashed as well.

这样做的风险在于：在将精灵放出魔瓶的同时，可能也会释放出无法控制的政治力量。

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As Iraq's agony has made clear, sectarianism is a dangerous genie .

正如伊拉克的苦难已经揭示出的，宗派主义是一个危险的精灵。

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And China and India need very fast growth indeed to satisfy the uncorked genie of development- hungry populations.

中国和印度的确需要很高的经济增长率，因为两国人民对发展的渴求已被释放出来，亟待满足。

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The least convincing criticism is that Mr Gorbachev failed to manage the genie of nationalism.

最令人难以信服的批评是，戈尔巴乔夫未能控制住民族主义妖怪。

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