"What you're seeing is people at the bottom rung of the economic ladder being taken off the economic ladder entirely," Kleinbard said.

“你所能见的景象是，原本收入中等的人在金融风暴中被彻底击垮，无力翻身，”凯伦·巴德说。

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When he took the other foot off the ladder, however, it met no resistance at all-only his tight grip on the ladder-rung kept him from toppling off balance.

他又把另一只脚从梯子上移来，然而，这只脚根本没有碰到什么阻碍——仅靠他紧抓住梯子的横档，使他没有失去平衡。

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If you don't pull it together and find some initiative, your rung just might get cut off.

如果你不能振作起来，不能积极主动，你的好运可能会被切断。

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Old systems cannot do this because by the time they generate a sales idea it is too late: the customer has already rung off or walked away.

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As the service drew to a close, a bell was rung once for each victim, reverberating through the hall and setting off a long moment of silence.

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