Historically, money lenders of one sort or another go back -who knows how far back -thousands of years.

从历史上讲,放债人的存在可以追溯到,谁知道多久以前,数千年前吧

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Well, the organic food, it's coming from originally, from many thousand years back.

有机食物可以追溯到几千年前。

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The history of banking often goes back only a matter of hundreds of years.

但是银行的历史通常只追溯到,大约数百年前

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But as the foreign slave trade was closed off, for a whole variety of reasons, only one of which was that there was this passage, sort of a vow, in the original Constitution that the question would be re-visited in 20 years, and 1808 was 20 years.

但随着海外奴隶交易,基于多种原因被封闭之后,这段只提到其中一个原因,是由于最初的宪法契约,这个问题要追溯到二十年前,内战开始前20年即1808年

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We set up--this is not a new idea, this goes back to China thousands of years ago, but it started to be widely done-- So you had a Civil Service exam that established your competence.

我们建立了，这不是什么新主意，可以追溯到几千年前的中国，但这次开始广泛地实施开来-,你得参加公务员考试来考核你的能力。

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