They are very aggressive to be type-A people who just simply made two extra hours out of their 24-hour day.

他们渴望成为上等人,甚至希望每天,能多过两个小时。

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It can never be a kind of cosmopolis, a world state or even a league of states or nations.

它永远不可能成为国际都会或世界之都，或甚至是国联或族联。

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By a cradle to grave and some would've even said a cradle to grave and beyond--human bondage.

从出生到死亡,有些人甚至可以说不仅是从生到死,奴隶的身份成为了世世代代不可磨灭的印记

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