Of course, booms aren't always followed by busts.

当然，繁荣之后并不总是萧条。

We've already looked at portrait sculpture which are busts created to commemorate people who had died, and we've looked at relief sculpture, or sculpting on walls.

我们已经看过了肖像雕塑，即为纪念逝者而作的半身像，我们也看过了浮雕，或者说墙上的雕刻。

Of course, booms aren't always followed by busts—we've certainly seen times when local economies expanded rapidly for a while and then went back to a normal pace of growth.

当然，行业繁荣并不总是以破产告终——地方经济在一段时间内迅速扩张，然后又回到正常增长速度的情况我们已经见过很多次了。

But real research busts this myth.

但是真正的研究却击破了这个神话。

But with booms come busts.

但繁荣与萧条总是相生相伴。

Credit busts often beget recessions.

信贷危机常常招致经济衰退。

Experience counts for more in busts than in booms.

经验在危机中比在繁荣时有用。

Recent drug busts raised fears of more deadly turf battles.

近来的缉毒行动也增加了对更致命冲突的担心。

This is Operation Julie, one of the biggest drug busts ever.

这项行动代号“朱丽叶”，是有史以来最大规模的缉毒行动之一。

But the history of Wall Street is a series of booms and busts.

但是华尔街的历史，就是一系列的繁荣和崩溃。

Housing busts in Ireland and Spain have crushed domestic demand.

地产泡沫在爱尔兰与西班牙的破裂压挤了国内需求。

This weekend’s tally of bank busts added another $357m to the bill.

本周末的银行破产数又给公司增加了3.57亿美金的损失。

Hence capital requirements should rise during booms and fall in busts.

因此，资本需求在景气时增加，不景气时则下降。

It is also a warning that recovering from housing and credit busts is hard.

同时也是一种警告，即房地产泡沫和信用危机的恢复是相当艰难的。

Historically, serious banking busts have mainly involved overborrowing by firms.

历史上，严重的银行业危机主要伴随着企业的过度举债。

Among the world's oldest portraits are ancient Roman busts of venerable senators.

世界上最古老的肖像是古罗马值得尊敬的元老的半身像。

Spain and Ireland were big sources of euro-zone demand, before their housing busts.

在房地产泡沫破灭之前，西班牙和爱尔兰是欧元区需求的主要来源。

It is leverage that explains why property busts have a habit of causing financial crises.

这种杠杆式投机可以解释为什么房产泡沫往往会引发经济危机。

To make the busts, Bender sometimes has to reconstruct a person's shattered cranial bones.

为了雕塑受害者的半身像，本德有时不得不重拼死者破碎的头盖骨。

The proximate causes of these busts have been varied, but follow a strikingly similar path.

这些泡沫的直接原因各不相同，但是破灭的路径极为相似。