“是的，”男人伤心地说，“但在我写这本书的时候，我们靠什么过活呢？”

"Yes," said the man sadly, "but what shall we live on while I am writing it?"

youdao

我写这本书的目的之一是让那些没有机会看到和享受真正数学的读者有机会欣赏到数学的思维方式。

One of my purposes in writing this book is to give readers who haven't had the opportunity to see and enjoy real mathematics the chance to appreciate the mathematical way of thinking.

youdao

这就是我写这本书的原因，这本书主要讨论的是在未来社会，当技术给我们曾经认为高收入的工作带来破坏性的变化的时候，应该如何重新规划未来的经济结构。

That's why I wrote this book, which is about how to reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes to what we used to consider high-income work.

youdao

And I actually say in my acknowledgements that I wrote this book, above all, for the next generation, for my children.

事实上，我在致谢中提到,我写这本书，首先是为了美国的下一代，为了我的孩子。

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I wrote this book in 2000 right at the peak of-- fortunately right at the peak of the stock market.

我2000年写这本书的时候,当时希勒教授在书中提醒投资者注意泡沫风险 股市正处于最高点 2个月后此预言果然应验

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I mentioned the book for the course and the book is a book that I've written.

我提到过这门课程用到的教材,这本书是我写的

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