When we were leaving, I even felt a little excited because I thought about all the places I was going to see—the strange and magical places I had known only from books and pictures.

当我们离开的时候，我甚至感到有点兴奋，因为我在想所有要去地方——那些我只从书和图片中了解到的陌生而神奇的地方。

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But this calm period - this strange time when we know everything and yet nothing - is the fun part, because we get to take our best shots at guessing what our new toys will look like.

不过这段平静的日子里——这段我们仿佛什么都知道却实际上什么都不知道的奇怪的时间——正是乐趣所在，因为我们尽可能猜测我们的新玩具会是什么样子的。

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I know something that might sound strange, because we always think of the dangers and challenges in the world around us. But I do believe this is an era of great promise and great opportunity.

有时候听上去可能很奇怪，因为我们总是觉得周围充满了危险和挑战，但我相信这确实是一个充满机会和希望的时代。

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"It is one of those strange moves because we can't attribute it to a payrolls report or Japanese economic news, " said Sean Callow, senior currency strategist at Westpac in Sydney.

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The oddity is that most banks already hold considerably more than the new minimum requirement - but the reason they already pass this threshold is because we continue to live in strange and perilous times, with many Western economies parlously weak and the financial system still stressed.

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The strange part is that because we didn't know what time we were going out, we sat around trying to do normal things.

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