But if he stepped aside, as gentlemanly conduct arguably required, he would lose credit for a theory that he had independently propounded.

如果他退让一步，就如发扬绅士风度所必须做的那样，他就会失去他自己独立研究所得的理论的发现权。

One day, I came into the office and one of my staff told me that we had, due to a data processing center foulup, that we had lost 1.2 million automatic credits and automatic deposits.

有一天，我走进办公室，一位员工告诉我，由于数据处理中心发生故障，我们损失了 120 万自动积分和自动存款。