The legacy of not one but two lost decades has saddled Japan’s future generations with a debt whose relative size is unprecedented in the OECD.

“失去的二十年”（而非“失去的十年”）之遗产，已使日本未来的世代背负上了沉重的债务，其相对规模之大，在经合组织中前所未见。

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Mr Mayer believes that somehow the British have lost the secret of keeping family firms going as such for more than two generations.

梅耶先生认为英国人莫名其妙地丢失了能使家族企业保持两代以上的奥妙。

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And what is more, the words of the song also came back-words, I am certain, which were sung by the animals of long ago and have been lost to memory for generations.

而且，还有那首歌的歌词，我确定，这首歌曾在很久之前在动物中传唱，但已经失传了好几代了。

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It captures something essential about Prime Burger, a shopworn space which was last updated in the 1960s: It represents not just a business but a sort of home, to loyal staff like the ageless Eddie Adams, who baked there for 63 years and produced a sweet potato pie that could make hard men weep, and to generations of lost-and-gone New Yorkers like me.

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It says that austerity measures are driving children across Europe into poverty, threatening to create "lost generations".

BBC: Little sign of Europe's depression lifting

Although "Bruges-La-Morte" enjoyed considerable success in its day, it lost much of its appeal for succeeding generations.

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