我的目标要建立在正确的事情上，那些我希望会延续一段时间的事情，我不想将人生难题的辉煌答案建立在过时的基础上。

My objective is to build upon the right things; things that I hope will be around for a while. I don't want to build my brilliant answer to life's problems on an outdated foundation.

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对此的解释可能是，金融行业最近的黄金时代营造了一种特权的文化，这种特权文化影响如此之深，以致至少在一段时间内延续下来，即使繁荣已惊人地变成了萧 条。

The explanation may be that finance’s most recent golden age created a culture of entitlement so deep that it survives, for a while at least, even when boom turns spectacularly to bust.

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它也许曾延续了一段相当长的时间。

It may have lasted a long time.

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