The story of what Kenneth Pomeranz, a history professor at the University of California, Irvine, has called "the Great Divergence" between East and West began much earlier.

美国加州大学欧文分校的历史教授Kenneth Pomeranz所谓的东方与西方之间“大分流开始得更早。”

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The story of what Kenneth Pomeranz, a history professor at the University of California , Irvine , has called "the Great Divergence" between East and West began much earlier.

肯尼。 彭慕兰，加州大学欧文分校的一位历史教授，认为东西方之间“大分流”的故事很早就开始了。

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So you see a great divergence where the wealthier states are growing faster and the poorer states are growing slower - so the gap between the rich and the poor is widening.

因此，你可以看到一种明显的差距，其中富裕的邦增长较快，贫困的邦增长较慢，从而拉大了贫富差距。

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But as Jack Lew said in his op-ed, and as the President and Jack have talked about in the construction of the budget, we have reached a point where we have to do something about what we take in and what we spend and the great divergence in those two numbers, and that this process is not going to be an easy one.

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And, at that stage of the game, there's great divergence on the part of all these nations about what to do about Iran.

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