But critics say banks are profiting mainly from trading activities, not from making loans to small businesses or homeowners.

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It gives opportunity to reflect a lot, contemplate a lot about not only your own daily activities, but just what's going on in the world around you.

这是一次机会，让人反省沉思,自己的日常生活中的一些活动，也思考我们身边的世界。

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We do not have a language for that, or a set of activities for that.

我们没有共同的语言，也没有一系列的活动来做这件事。

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These are not activities that most would find comfortable or optimal on the small screen of a smartphone.

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As for the FDIC-insured commercial banks that ran into trouble, the record is also clear: what got them into trouble were not activities restricted by Glass-Steagall.

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Yet, these important but not urgent activities often get ignored till the last-minute.

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