Game theory underlay the principle of mutually assured destruction developed by American strategists during the cold war.

正是它奠定了由美国战略家们在冷战时期所发展出的恐怖制衡（确保相互毁灭以达到相互制约）理论。

The economic situation between China and the U.S. is the financial version of mutually assured destruction - that cold war doctrine of nuclear deterrence. If you destroy me, I will destroy you.

中美之间的经济形势是两国金融互相绝对的毁灭——就像冷战思维，你消灭我，我就消灭你。

And so the Mutually Assured Destruction policy of the Cold War…

冷战时期 美苏这种互毁式核武攻击策略…

We had a good time savoring some cheap wine and contemplating mutually assured destruction.

我们快乐的品尝便宜的葡萄酒并且互相考虑承诺过的惩罚。

But it also noted that in effect this was a "foreign-exchange version of the cold-war stalemate based on 'mutually assured destruction'".

但它同时也指出了这样的举措会是“冷战的外汇版本，这样的僵局将会使得双方都蒙受巨大损失”。

We are moving to replace mutually assured destruction with mutual cooperation.

我们正在采取行动，以共同合作代替同归于尽。

In effect, it is trapped in the economic equivalent of the mutually assured destruction described by theorists of nuclear deterrence in the cold war.

实际上，中国在经济上陷入的困局，类同于冷战中核威慑理论家所形容的“相互保证毁灭”。

Why does Samaritan want to speak with her? What would be the point other than mutually assured destruction?

为什么撒马利亚人想和她交流？除了相互毁灭之外还有什么意义呢？

For the moment, the balance is maintained by what Nick Carn of Odey, a hedge-fund group, calls “mutually assured destruction”.

目前，被对冲基金奥迪（Odey）资产管理公司首席投资家尼克·卡恩称为“互相毁灭”的政策保持着国债市场的平衡。

There has always been a kind of uneasy "mutually assured destruction" standoff among giants.

因为在大公司间总是有一种令人不安的“相互牵制”的僵持局面。

Yet there is more to the US-Chinese monetary relationship than fear of mutually assured dollar destruction.

然而，除了担忧相互证实的美元毁灭以外，美中。

American policy-makers may utter the mantra that "they need us as much as we need them" and refer ominously to Lawrence Summers's famous phrase about "mutually assured financial destruction."

美国的政策制定者可能会说习惯性地说出“他们需要我们正如我们需要他们一样”，并不祥地参考劳伦斯萨默斯的那句名言“财政上的两败俱伤”。

American policy-makers may utter the mantra that "they need us as much as we need them" and refer ominously to Lawrence Summers's famous phrase about "mutually assured financial destruction.

美国的政策制定者们也许会念着“他们需要我们如同我们需要他们一样多”的咒语，同时不安地引述着劳伦斯。萨默斯的那句名言“相互确保金融毁灭”。