I resolved to spend time in the accountants' glass tower, as well as in one or two of their homes, in order to build up a snapshot of an average day in the life of an accountant.

我决定在会计师们的玻璃高塔里待上一段时间，在一两个他们的家里也是一样，从而能构建起一幅属于一个会计师的平常日子的快照。

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And in London, the Houses of Parliament, as well as the London Eye, Canary Wharf, the Gherkin and the BT Tower, switched their lights off.

在伦敦，中心的议会大楼，加纳利码头，电信大楼，也把他们的灯熄灭了。

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Ten years later, it is striking how many of the eight we chose then have made an impact well beyond the ivory tower, and how few are still involved in active economic research.

10年后，令人惊讶的是，在当时我们所选择的这8位青年经济学家中，有这么多人所产生的影响远远超出了经济学象牙塔的范围，而仍在参与积极的经济研究的又是如此寥寥。

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The Catholic establishment is located in the rue Cler, a well-known market street close to the Eiffel Tower.

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The logic behind long-only equity, that risky assets deserve higher growth potential and straight market exposure will provide acceptable returns, works well in the ivory tower of modern portfolio theory, but often takes decades to deliver results in practice.

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So it's exciting to have Sargent show us the ranges of white in a simple stucco house in Corfu (1909) and the tower of Venice's Dogana (1911), as well as in garden sculptures in Florence and lots of water views.

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