With a fledgling recovery gaining strength, it is easy to forget how close major industrialized nations came to economic collapse less than two years ago, an outcome that almost surely would have triggered a worldwide depression rivaling the Great Depression of the 1930s.

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And for reference, incidentally, in case you ever forget what the point of some exercise was, I'll almost always comment the code up top with a quick sentence or two that reminds you what this program does.

顺便作为参考，为了避免我们可能忘记一些代码的意思，我通常会用一两个简单的句子,在上面作出注释,那样会提醒我们这个程序是干嘛的。

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Actually, the truth is I sort of almost felt that once you were there, it's kind of easy to get lost there, to forget about it.

实际情况是,我觉得一旦你生活在那里，似乎很容易忘记这种冲突。

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