他提出的未来和过去一样都属于经纪人的论断，和他关于美国是全球的推销员的观点相符合，但是随着很多其他非居间化的标志的出现，这个论断似乎站不住脚了。

The suggestion that the future, like the past, will belong to the middleman may suit his view of America as the world's salesman, but it sits ill with many other signs of disintermediation.

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“我发现我的生意过去很好，[获奖后]但突然间，生意有点冷了，”马丁内斯说，他的顾客往往都属于工薪阶层。

"I noticed my business was great [right after the award] but all of a sudden, it quieted down," says Martinez, whose customers tend to be working-class people.

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他生于1867年，长于描绘明丽的风景，浴女和室内画，其实并不属于近代的印象画派，而是现代派，一个着眼于未来而不是沉溺过去的画家。

This painter of shimmering landscapes, bathers and interiors, born in 1867, is not a latter-day Impressionist after all. He was a modernist, a man looking forward not back.

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