麦道夫成功于低信贷成本的年代：在那样的日子里，贪婪和欺骗比恐惧怀疑更占上风。

And he thrived in an era of cheap credit, when greed and gullibility became far more powerful than fear and suspicion.

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五十年代末，那时我还是个孩子，在肯塔基州的路易斯维尔长大，我生活在对马、猫、灰尘、贝类和番茄的恐惧之中。

When I was child growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, in the late 1950s, I lived in constant fear of horses, cats, dust, shellfish and tomatoes.

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在19世纪30年代，美国恐惧于德国和日本日益增长的力量，正确地为增强自我力量而游说。

In the 1930s the U.S. military, nervous about the growing strength of Germany and Japan, rightly lobbied for building up our forces.

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In fact you can find all over American culture in 1800,1810, even into the 1820s, a lot of fear of technology.

其实你能从所有的美国文化中发现,在1800到1810年,甚至在19世纪20年代,充斥着太多对新技术的恐惧

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