So it's just going to sort of snowball.

这就像滚雪球一样。

But also, I didn't want this to snowball in anything that was never supposed to.

而且我也不想再卷入不该牵涉其中的事了。

It began to snowball and cause a system-wide meltdown and major financial institutions like Lehman Brothers failed because of their exposure to the housing market.

然后就开始滚雪球，导致整个系统的崩溃，像雷曼兄弟这样的主要金融机构因为他们在房地产市场的敞口而倒闭。

We won the grant and I thought, god, that was incredible and then it just started to snowball that that process of sharing and supporting each other.

我们赢得了拨款，我当时想，天哪，这真是太不可思议了，然后就像滚雪球一样，开始了不断分享和支持彼此的过程。