我们已经认识到一次市场崩溃未必导致经济灾难。

We have learned that a market crash need not lead to economic disaster.

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但实际上这两者都导致了帝国的过度扩张，造成了糜烂的经济，产生了一个极不负责任的统治阶层，——就像今天的俄国一样，把一个骄傲的国家引向了灾难。

But what did for both was imperial overstretch, a rotten economy and, like Russia's today, a mostly unaccountable ruling caste that led a proud country to disaster.

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世界银行今天发布的临时估算报告称，灾难导致的经济损失达2350亿美元，约占GDP的4%。

Provisional estimates released today by the World Bank put the economic damage resulting from the disaster at as much as $235 billion, around 4% of GDP.

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