This marks an important change in the Anglo-American world, away from informal rules often enforced by private actors toward the more formal bureaucratic system common in continental Europe.

这标志着英裔美国人世界的重要变化，从私人保证的不成文条款变成了欧洲大陆上常见的那种更为正式的行政系统。

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Yet most continental Europeans were breezily optimistic. The long years of being lectured about their inadequacies by the Anglo-Saxons were over.

然而，大多数的欧洲大陆人却表现得很乐观，因为长期被英国人批评的状况结束了。

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Talk in continental Europe of an "Anglo-Saxon" conspiracy of greedy speculators is also dishonest.

欧洲大陆中关于贪婪投机者的“盎格鲁-撒克逊”阴谋论之说也并不可靠。

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