The coffee ritual is incomplete without a delicious pastry or a slice of chocolate cake.

美味的油酥点心或一块巧克力蛋糕在喝咖啡时也是必不可少的。

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It is not because households save so much of their income (although they do), but because household income accounts for such a small slice of the national cake.

这不是因为家庭储蓄了太多收入(尽管他们的确是这么做的)，而是因为家庭收入占国家财富太小的缘故。

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What used to be a nice glass of champagne and a slice of cake of an afternoon in the village hall, with all guests getting home by 6pm, has morphed into an epic event.

过去结婚是下午在乡村礼堂里的一杯香槟，一块蛋糕，所有的客人都会赶在6点之前回家。 而现在它演变成了一件史诗般的事情。

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And owners of capital are grabbing a bigger slice of the cake relative to workers as a whole.

ECONOMIST: The rich nations no longer dominate global production

That is mostly because workers get such a small slice of the national cake: 53% in 2007, down from 61% in 1990 (and compared with about two-thirds in America).

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Will it enable Mr Ellison to help himself to a big slice of the industry's cake?

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