At the very least, it has awoken us from our national fever dream of easy riches and bigger houses, and put a necessary end to an era of reckless personal spending.

至少，它让我们从轻易致富和拥有更大房子的狂热梦想中醒来，并为一个不计后果的个人消费时代画上了一个必然的句号。

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Grayson says that while Felipe Calderon's campaign against the powerful drug lords is a necessary effort to protect the nation from criminal enterprises, it will not end narcotics trafficking.

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Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

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If a third end is necessary, the closest arrow to the centre of the target will win the contest.

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For many, fertility treatment is a necessary means to a very important end.

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