and that's spreading. This prosperity preaching is going on in Africa. And my question is, where does that leave suffering?

这种劲头越来越大，这种追求繁荣的论调,甚至在非洲都出现了，我想问的是，在这样的大背景下，受苦还能存在么？

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After World War II, there were two things that, I think, contributed to the huge housing boom at that time.

第二次世界大战后,我认为,那时房地产的巨大繁荣主要归结于两件事

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And they had this feeling because there had just been this huge boon of discovery, of scientific advances that included Newtonian mechanics, it included Dalton's atomic theory of matter, also thermodynamics and classical electromagnetism.

他们会有这样的感觉,是因为他们刚，经历科学上的,大繁荣期，包括牛顿力学,道尔顿物质原子理论，热力学和电磁学,都取得了巨大进展。

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I'm going to see if I have enough money to do this in class When we played this game in the old days, during the dot com boom with the MBA students, you had to put fifty dollars on the table to get them interested.

我看看我有没有足够的现金,在之前和MBA学生做这个游戏的时候,那时候正赶上互联网大繁荣,你得拿出来50美元他们才有兴趣

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