Venture into this terrain and you get some idea of the hardships facing anyone who calls this home: farming is out of the question and nature offers meagre pickings.

冒险进入这片土地，你就会对任何一个把这里称为家的人所面临的困难有一些了解：耕作是不可能的，而大自然却只能提供微薄的收成。

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Today, let's try to get an idea about a question that's not addressed as much as the others, and that's—what was their culture like?

今天，让我们来试着了解一个问题，这个问题并没有像其他问题那样引起广泛讨论。那就是——他们的文化是什么样的？

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But the past year has called into question the very idea of a low-risk loan.

但过去的一年让人们怀疑一切低风险贷款概念。

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Those scientists included researchers who question the idea that human activity is causing temperatures in the atmosphere to rise.

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Right? That would be an entirely different matter, wouldn't it, because you would have absolutely no idea whether the question was rhetorical or grammatical, right?

对吧，那将会是一个完全不同的情况，难道不是吗，因为你就会完全不知道,这个问句是修辞型的还是语法型的，对吧？

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Now, I wanted to compare it with another question that I--people have this simple idea that there's a best investment.

现在,让我们对比另一个问题,人们总是简单地认为存在一种最佳投资

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The benefits for economic development seemed to justify this approach, and Singapore and Malaysia, too, accepted the idea without question.

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This idea of focusing intensively on behavior change is without question an idea whose time has come.

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Just as Americans are adjusting to the somehow radically new fangled idea that a house is really just a home, they are beginning to question the idea that all asset classes are winners as investments.

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