Eventually she would break down and ask one of us kids to thread it for her.

到最后实在搞不下去了，就叫一个孩子来帮她穿。

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It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.

正是因为人们在大堤崩裂时接纳陌生人的关爱之情，正是因为工人们宁愿减少自己的工时而不愿看到朋友失去工作的无私精神，才使我们度过了最暗淡的时光。

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It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break, the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours.

在堤防决堤时，是人们的善心，让他们招待陌生人。是工作人员的无私，让他们宁可减工时，也不愿看到朋友失业，陪伴我们度过最黑暗时期。

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But as the US began the inflation that would ultimately lead to its break with gold, it transmitted that inflation to all those currencies, such as the mark, that were fixed to the dollar.

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