GENERAL ELECTRIC has historically been a manufacturer, but in the long boom leading up to the financial crisis it became more like a bank.

通用集团历史上一直是一家制造企业，但是在引致金融危机的长时间的繁荣时期，通用变得像一家银行。

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This boom brings a problem: it is helping to drive up the Canadian dollar, which risks making life more difficult for manufacturers back east.

这种强烈需求带来一个问题：对加拿大元的升值起了推波助澜的作用，使得东部的厂商生存更加艰难。

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It doesn't match up very well though because interest rates have been going down since 1980 and the boom is very sudden, so it seems to me that Greenspan should have seen this bubble coming.

虽然这说法有些瑕疵，因为利率自1980年开始就一直下降，但繁荣却突如其来，所以我觉得，格林斯潘本应能看到泡沫的发生。

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"We have had depressions," "We have had recessions. It is a boom and bust cycle that we are having and people are starting to get fed up with it."

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General Motors at its height, when I was growing up in Flint, Michigan, in boom times, would've wished it could've said that.

即使是通用汽车鼎盛时期,那时我还是个孩子生活在密歇根的弗林特,也没能有如此辉煌的成绩

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Suppose I hold up my boom box for you and it's playing music.

假设我拿着我的扬声器给你们播放音乐

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The online classifieds boom has made it infinitely easier to pick up or get rid of a car, a used plasma TV or anything else you can imagine.

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Like other mid-sized cities, during the boom years it created lots of private-sector jobs, up 16.2% between 1998 and 2008.

ECONOMIST: Why some cities thrive while others slump

In the mid-90s, a former chief minister decided to shake up the state and join the IT boom revolutionising other parts of India.

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