So, all of these financial obstructions that we had built up were suddenly being swept away.

所以我们所有的金融障碍,都忽然消失了。

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So all the shillings disappeared and the only coin left was the guinea.

所以，所有的先令就消失了,只剩下几尼作为唯一的硬币。

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In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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that, except for the principles, maybe their families maybe not, all our money can disappear in thirty days, so we have to be cognizant of that.

这意味着除了那些最重要的人，或者是他们的家人，或者不是，我们所有的钱可以在30天之内消失，所以我们必须认识到这一点。

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