大萧条时期最艰难的那几年,我正念小学呢,哪怕是那会儿我们也用不着饿肚子。我从来没有听说有什么亲戚过得很苦。
Even during the worst years of the Depression, when I was in grade school, we had enough to eat; if any of our relatives experienced hardship I never knew it.
但是,华尔街却不了解什么是限度:几年来,华尔街用不可思议的方式将合理的理念引向了不合理的极端。
But limits aren't something that Wall Street knows much about: in recent years, it has shown an uncanny knack for taking reasonable ideas to unreasonable extremes.
所以,当时的情况就是,一向谨慎的凯特,在这件事儿上太过自信了,甚至说,用不了几年,她就能戴上王室的戒指了。
The fact that Kate, normally so discreet, felt confident enough to mention this shows how sure she was that she would be wearing a ring then and not several years later.
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