As a linguist once said, "You can get people to think it's nonsense at the same time that you buy into it. “

正如一位语言学家曾经说过的那样：“你可以让人们认为它是无稽之谈，但同时你又对它深信不疑。”

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As a linguist once said, "You can get people to think it's nonsense at the same time that you buy into it."

正如一位语言学家曾经说过的那样：“你可以让人们认为这是无稽之谈，但同时你又会相信它。”

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Income clearly matters: it determines how much people can buy and therefore whether they can afford to do the things, like eat enough, that critics of income-based measures think are more important.

很明显收入是很重要的：收入决定了一个人可以买多少东西，因此决定了他们是否能够负担得起一些事物，比如能否吃饱，而收入衡量法的批评者们认为这些更重要。

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And it causes, I think, people to buy into that really very ugly notion that, well, this is what tribes do.

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