Now, I know you've had all this bonding in the orientation period, but I think that it's much better when you write a test for there to be some solid state defects known as vacancies in between the various people.

现在，我知道你们关系很融洽,在互相介绍的时间里，但是我想这样会更好,当你们在一起做一个测试,成为固体化学的不良产品,成为众多人当中的缺位。

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It's exposing defects in many of our biggest financial institutions and every day we see more news about failures, huge losses, resignations, or firings of top finance people.

这次金融危机暴露了,很多大型金融机构存在的问题,每天我们都看到很多关于,破产,巨额亏损,或者金融业高层,辞职或被炒鱿鱼的新闻

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And just from this little section of the poem, you can see that the theme of a new kind of education and only that can remedy nature's defects, as Machiavelli calls them. It is this lack of strife, this long lack of strife, that makes people weak.

仅从这首诗的这一小部分中，你能看到一种提倡新型教育的主题,而且只有那样才能弥补本性的缺陷，如马基雅维利所称，正是由于缺少争斗，这种长时期的冲突匮乏，才使得人们变得软弱。

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