“It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail”, he went on, “and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays.

“我直到55岁时才详细思量了这一切，”他继续说道，“那时我已经活过2800多个星期六了。

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"It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any detail," he went on, "and by that time I had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays."

他接着说：“我直到55岁才认真地去思考这一点。”到那个时候我已经度过了2800个星期六了。

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People always lived in dimness to some extent. If a man knew that he would hit the grand prize of a hundred millions in a lottery after half year how would he live through the six months before it?

人总是生活在一定程度的迷茫之中，假如一个人知道半年后他会中一亿元乐透奖，那他这六个月的日子要怎么过呢？

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Maybe it was the hyperinflation he'd lived through as a young adult in Austria, in the 1920s, but he simply did not believe governments should or could iron out the bumps in the economic cycle.

BBC: Masters of Money: Friedrich Hayek