They ended up moving to a small town and no longer engaged in subsistence agriculture, if his parents had, or his grandparents.

最后他们移居到一个小镇上,不再把持小农经营,不像他爸妈,或者祖父一辈

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Unfortunately, the mediocre person who blunders, ? you now think is even more mediocre. Right?

不幸的是，本来就是平庸之辈，再出丑，你会觉得他更平庸，对吧？

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Our generation is much wealthier than our parents, much, much wealthier than our grandparents' generation.

我们这一代比父辈富足，比祖父辈更加富足。

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What most people are doing when they go into a mutual fund is they're trying to find smart people who will beat the market-- who will pick those stocks that will do well.

大多数人投资共同基金,实际是在寻找聪明之辈,来帮助他们获取更高收益率...,来挑选表现最为优异的股票

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