The Summer Palace, we have been pleased to discover, sets an excellent standard: the explanations there are full and almost completely correct.

我们很高兴地看到，颐和园已经达到了很不错的水准：那儿的英文解释很充分，几乎完全正确。

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“We try to get our kids to do chores,” one survey respondent complains, but it’s hard to get them to mow the lawn when “we have an almost full-time gardener.”

“我们会尝试让孩子们去做家务。” 一个调查对象抱怨很难让他们去除草，因为“我们已经有一个全职的园丁。”

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Even when we have a fridge full of options, trying to decide what to make for dinner is almost as challenging as trying to decide what to watch on Netflix.

即使冰箱里有很多食物供我们选择，但是决定晚餐做什么几乎和决定在网飞上看什么一样具有挑战性。

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Even with greed, highly paid aggressive bankers, credit-default swaps, and those geeky quants, we would almost certainly have muddled through the fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble without a full-blown financial crisis had there not been millions of mortgages made to people with chequered credit and no down-payments.

ECONOMIST: An alternative history lesson