I mean, the Greeks didn't -- Plato's Symposium, all of these guys are sitting around having a drinking party.

我是说,希腊人不这样 --,在柏拉图的飨宴上,人们坐在那里举行酒宴

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You were sort of in a punchbowl The country was at a party and we kept drinking from this punchbowl, enjoying ourselves, and the rest of the world would take our dollars.

你就有点像在一个动力十足的碗里,那样的话，整个国家就像是一个大派对，我们在这个,动力十足的碗里畅饮，尽情愉悦，世界其他国家或地区的人也会接受美元。

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That's all they do all night, but they also are talking and they're talking very well as a matter of fact, and the goal of this conversation is, or of this party rather, Symposium means by the way drinking together.

他们彻夜豪饮,但同时也谈经论道,事实上,他们还讨论得不亦乐乎,这场讨论的目的,或是说这场聚会的目的是,顺便说下,"Symposium"的意思是"一起喝酒"

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