Behind the fertility trend is a vast cultural shift from thegeneration that fought in World War II, which married early and produced thegreat baby boom of 1945 to 1965.

在生育趋势的背后是文化的大变革，在二战中摸爬滚打的一代人早早结婚，创造了1945年到1965的婴儿潮，这种情况已不复存在了。

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When World War II ended in 1945 and the Baby Boom began the following year, the 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage became a cornerstone of society and led to unprecedented levels of homeownership.

1945年第二次世界大战结束，并在随后一年出现婴儿潮，这种30年的、固定利率的抵押贷款成了社会基石，社会群体最大化地出现空前多的私房房主。

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I mean this went through thick and thin, through war and peace, through boom times and recessions. The Great Depression made not a dent in this exponential progression.

我的意思是，这一切，经历过任何困难，战争与和平，经历过繁荣时期和经济衰退，大萧条并没有对指数增长造成冲击。

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The only other time we've seen a boom like this was right after World War II and that's shown by this line here; that wasn't as big.

我们可以看到,类似的繁荣,只在第二次世界大战之后出现过,就像这条线所显示的,这个增量不大

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We've seen a boom in building in the United States that is at a record level, except for that one Korean War blip, and so I think it's a highly abnormal situation that we've been in.

所以美国出现一波建造新房的浪潮,规模空前,仅次于朝鲜战争时期,我认为这是极不正常的

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TORONTO Falling sales and soft prices are spooking Toronto's condo market, but for Sydney Bacon, a 102-year-old World War II veteran, and other critics of the boom, it is a little bit of a breather.

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In West Africa, for instance, between the turn of the century and World War II, there was a major agricultural boom in commodities such as cotton, cocoa and kola.

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Steve Jobs was born in 1955 to a Syrian immigrant father at the height of the post-War Baby Boom.

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