you've made it. Because it's an extremely hard place to support yourself.

你就成功了。因为在这个地方真的很难养活自己。

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He's trying extremely hard to make an answer, and what he ends up doing is bringing that knowledge that he built up in Chicago, the knowledge that he gets from reading economics and sociology and Marxism.

他在里面倾其所学，让她明白,甚至用马克思主义,经济学和社会学中。

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