Now, they seem to have become much like everyone else, enslaved neither by high-falutin' duty nor repressed sentiment.

现在来看，他们和他人别无二致——既不是被夸大的责任所奴役，也不是受制于压抑的情感。

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The high falutin' description would be "postmodern"--an overused word but one that, in this case, perfectly captures where the kids are at.

FORBES

The defenders of that maneuver argue that if Bear Stearns had failed it would have created a lot of collateral damage, so much collateral damage, that you and I, normal folk who don't know anything about high-falutin' financial instruments like "collateralized debt obligations" would have been engulfed as well.

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