Her aim in writing is to keep each song as clear and simple as possible while also telling a story.

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I think there's a simple story which is very different from what's causing the current apparently current recession.

我认为这里有一个简单的故事，一个不同于,现在的经济衰退的故事，导致现在这个危机。

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I'm going to give a kind of a history of financial regulations in the United States that makes it rather a simple story.

我要讲讲美国金融监管史上的一些要点,我们长话短说

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And so the stories couldn't have been simple inventions, and that began a new phase in the story. And, again, to repeat what I said last time, there were certain stunning physical resemblances between what Homer said and what we could see.

所以,神话传说并不只是人们的空想,这样事情就有所不同了,同时,我重复下我上次所说的,《荷马史诗》所描述的世界,在当今确有令人吃惊的实物证据

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