同她之前年代的年轻人不同，她不将最终得到一个稳定的工作视为成功与否的标准。

Unlike many young people in the generation before hers, she did not see a safe job as an ultimate measure of success.

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The trial of Socrates takes place in the year 399 and all of these refer to before the common era 399.

苏格拉底的审判,发生在公元前399年，这些,全都指向共同年代─399年之前。

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Until the teens, telephones were very expensive because they didn't have good amplification technology.

在20年代之前,电话还是奢侈品,因为它们还没有增强讯号技术

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And Thomas Jefferson described the people of the North this was in the 1780s now, this is before the cotton boom and all that he described the people of the North this way.

托马斯杰斐逊描述了北方人民,那时候是十八世纪八十年代,还是在棉花产业兴盛之前,他是这么形容北方人的

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