A lot of didn't get sick from it now, and we got sick from it before.

许多人不会再因为微生物得病了,而人们以前则会因此生病

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This is magical thinking and it affects people because it gives them a sense of confidence and power over events that are thought to be random or uncontrollable.

这是神奇式思考,而它也影响人们,因为它给人自信和力量,去应对那些随机或者不可控的事件

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And, in my view, the Paris Commune and the massacre that followed the Paris Commune, the massacre of thousands and thousands of people, anticipated the twentieth century, when you became guilty for just being who you were.

在我看来,巴黎公社和随后的那场,使得成千上万的人死于非命的大屠杀,都预示了二十世纪的血雨腥风,人们仅仅因为自己的出身而获罪

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And if I think back to my own childhood again, not that that was the glory days by any means, but I mean people weren't falling over hour after hour from dehydration because they didn't have a water bottle with them.

如果我回忆一下自己的童年,不是说我的童年有多光辉灿烂,而是我想说当时人们也没有因脱水而倒下,而因为他们没有随身携带水壶

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So for an example, he argued that the prison system needs to be reformed because instead of focusing on notions of justice and retribution what we should do is focus instead on questions of reinforcing good behaviors and punishing bad ones.

举个例子，他认为监狱体系需要改革,因为人们不应关注公正与赎罪,而应当去关注对良好行为的强化,以及对不良行为的惩罚。

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I actually believe in the history of the planet, there are very, very few instances of people getting paid for taking risk; they get paid for eliminating it.

我一直相信在人类的历史上，有非常少的例子来证明人们,因为承担风险而获得了收益；,他们是因为规避了风险而收益。

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That's what I'll buy today not because I'll derive income off of it, but because it's what people are going to want next week and I'll be able to sell it higher.

意思是我今天要买入什么,并不是因为我希望从中获取收益，而是因为这是人们在下个星期希望买入的,而我将会以更高价卖出。

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People would invest in buildings solely for tax purposes because you could write off the depreciation on the building, so people were cynically setting up DPPs as tax shelters only.

人们可以仅仅为了避税而投资一幢大楼,因为你可以对大楼计提折旧,注,计提的折旧可以抵扣税前收益从而减少应交税金 所以讽刺的是DPP仅被当做了避税工具

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