"So what happens when China is able to do that,and worse, what happens when the United States may not be able to for quite a while?."

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But what's even worse is I'm going to get even less than the average amount of life.

但更糟糕的是,我活得比平均寿命还要短。

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What is it about the fact that we don't have something that we used to that makes it worse than ? not having something that we're going to?

要怎么看待,我失去了曾经拥有的事物,要比无法拥有,我们可能拥有的事物更糟糕？

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the economy begins to recover, and then Hoover and the Congress decided what to do to fix things and they immediately make things worse, and Franklin Roosevelt comes in and keeps fixing it and keeps fixing it and keeps fixing it and the thing is bad bad bad.

经济开始复苏，然而胡佛和国会,却决定开始干预,并且他们一出手就把事情弄得很糟，然后富兰克林上任,不断再修理,不断修理不断修理,情况还是很糟糕很糟糕。

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And of course, since it's not just black and white, good life or bad life, but various shades of gray, better lives and worse lives, what's the yardstick by virtue of ? which we measure better and worse lives?

因为不是单纯的黑白，好或坏的人生，两者是混杂的，更好的人生和更坏的人生，衡量更好和更坏人生的,道德标准是什么？

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Well,what's the worse thing?

那什么才是更坏的？

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I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

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