“我是大萧条的产物”是博洛格对自己的描述。

"I'm a product of the great depression" is how Borlaug described himself.

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那是1933年，经济大萧条的高峰期，流动工人们加紧在火车上逃票。

It is 1933, the height of the Great Depression, and the hobos are busy riding the rails.

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现在，你已经知道了引发大萧条的所有要素。

Now, you've got all the ingredients for a huge bust.

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There is no better time to start a new company or a new idea than a depression or recession because a lot of the management teams were being asked to leave.

金融衰退和大萧条是,建立一个公司或是发展一个新想法的最好时机,因为很多管理团队都被辞退了。

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Now, I think that ultimately--interestingly enough, Los Angeles had a real estate boom and bust in the 1880s; that's hard to believe.

现在,我认为这非常有意思,19世纪80年代洛杉矶经历了房地产的,繁荣和萧条,这难以置信

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General Electric ironically was started right after the Great Deleveraging of 1873 that was the bubble before the depression that was just like this one.

通用电气则恰好是在1873年,对冲基金拆仓后产生的,而那正是萧条来临前的泡沫时期。

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