and the first you are going to be reading will be a chapter in a book I wrote 5 or 6 years ago I guess it's almost 6 years now since 1998 to came up.

首先你们要读的,是我5年或6年前写的一章,我想应该是至今6年了,从1998年算的话。

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So, give me two more minutes, I'm going to end, and a few of you, faces, I've heard this before, people that I know; but, I guess one reason why I'm in history--well, because I read a book a long time ago.

所以,再给我两分钟,我就要结束了,你们有些人,面孔,这我见过,有的人我认识,但是,我觉得我之所以搞历史,因为我很久以前读过一本书

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