Leeuwenhoek wrote back: "Find a diamond of one hundred and forty carats.

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All of this the New Criticism had a great deal to do with-- and when I talk next time about the way in which it's been vilified for the last forty or fifty years, naturally I will have this in the back of my mind.

这些都跟新批评派有关-,等我下次再说到这个,在四五十年前饱受诋毁的文学鉴赏方式的时候，我还会想起今天所说的话。

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Back in the 1840s, life insurance was very important because the average expectancy of life was only something like forty-five years, so that meant parents were dying left and right.

在19世纪40年代的时候,寿险是非常重要的,因为当时的人均期望寿命,仅为45岁左右,这意味着双亲平均只能活到45岁

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It was--Modigliani and Miller said back then-- this was thirty or forty years ago-- that companies should really not pay dividends because dividends were then taxed at a higher rate than capital gains.

莫迪利阿尼和米勒说在那时候,大概30或40年前,公司不应分配股利,因为对股利征税的税率比对资本收益高

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