It's a way to make old things useful.

这是一种让旧东西变得有用的方法。

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I won't stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are.

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Sometimes the old aristocracy will be able to hold on for a very long time and to suppress any attempt to change things.

有时一些老贵族,会冥顽不灵,固执己见,试图遏止这些变革力量

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Some things are out now. The old catalog is out now. We are just looking for new guys now.

一些东西已经过时了，那些旧的歌曲过时了。我们现在正在寻找新人。

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Either old things more efficiently (exactly equal to rising productivity) or to do entirely new things.

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Frank chalks this up to a young-person curiosity about old things in an era when the past is rapidly disappearing.

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