This was not supposed to happen 5 or 10 years ago, it is supposed to happen now.

这些不应当在5年前或者10年前发生，而应当在今天发生。

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Financial Services vice Minister Kouhei Ohtsuka said recently: "Privatization was supposed to make people's lives easier, but in reality it did not happen this way."

财经事务副部长Kouhe i冢近日表示：“私有化是应该使人们的生活更简单，但实际上这没有发生过这种方式。”

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This was not supposed to happen it unsettled us, it made the world flat and we walked for a time in chagrined silence.

NEWYORKER: Midnight in Dostoevsky