And the claim that psychoanalysis proves itself by being- by its tremendous success in curing mental illness is also almost certainly not true.

对于精神分析,通过在治疗心理疾病方面获得的巨大成功,证明了其理论的正确性,这个观点当然也是不对的。

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The U.S. Federal Reserve System was really a copy of the Bank of England thinking that, well, the Bank of England managed to prevent bank runs for all these years, let's create the Fed, which we'll talk about again later.

美国联邦储备制度,就是模仿英格兰银行而建立的,试想一下,由于英格兰银行在预防,银行挤兑方面一直都很成功,所以美国就效仿建立联邦储备,后面的课程再讲美联储

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But the general idea of Freud is actually been so successful both in the study of scientific psychology and in our interpretation of everyday life that, to some extent, freud's been a victim of his own success.

但弗洛伊德的理论,确实在科学心理学的研究,和日常生活的解释方面,获得了巨大的成功，以至于弗洛伊德多少有点，成了他自身成功的牺牲者。

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You wonder, you know, maybe they're over imitating; maybe we were just lucky or maybe it was because the U.S. was the first, in some ways, to develop some of these financial institutions-- or one of the first.

你会怀疑,也许他们的模仿过于盲目,美国的成功,也许源于运气,也许从某方面来说,美国是第一个建立这些金融制度的国家,或者说是首批之一

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