就像我们在生活中面临大难的时候一样，如果我们当时能够“保持平和，静静相信”的话，我们的现在会过得好得多。

So it is with most of the great calamities that afflict us. If we would only "calmly rest, quietly trust, " how much better off we should be.

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如果没有这些法案，我们估计劳动力投入水平本可较1930年代末高出20%，并能够使经济在当时就走上正轨。

In the absence of these policies, we estimate that labor input would have been about 20% higher than it was at the end of the 1930s and would have returned the economy to trend by that time.

youdao

如果我们的祖先声称到他们那时的程度就已经满足了，那么我们就不会有很多我们现在认为有价值的东西——而且如果他们当时能够想象得到这些东西的话，那么他们也会重视的。

If our ancestors had declared themselves thus satisfied, we would be without many things that we value-and that they would have valued too, could they have imagined them.

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