You can spot false symbols of success quite easily.

你可以很容易的辨认出这些关于成功的错误标志。

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I'm talking about the false symbols of success that so many worship.

我说的是那些对不正确的成功标志的崇拜。

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As I've seen many times over, the outer symbols of success can all be easily lost.

无数次我看到那成功的外衣转瞬即逝。

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The same cannot be said of the banks, which, in the course of the 1990s and 2000s became pervasive symbols both of a bogus form of economic success and of a value system that drove morality out of many areas of business.

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We explored why it is we sometimes find ourselves caught up in the chase for the symbols of someone else's definition of success.

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