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.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

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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