来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代社会理论基础 第16集 第16集》

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  He starts with a rather uninteresting part.
  开头部分相当无趣
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  He offers some empirical evidence there
  他提供了一些经验证据
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  is a correlation between being rich
  说明成为富人和成为新教徒之间
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  and being Protestant.
  存在某种关联
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  Well this is no proof of causality;
  他并没有指出其中的因果关系
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  it's a kind of prima facie evidence, what he does.
  只是提出表面上的例证
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  I think that's probably the weakest part of the book.
  我想这大概是本书中最无力的部分了吧
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  Then he asks the question,
  接着他提问
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  what is the spirit of capitalism?
  什么是资本主义的精神
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  What is the worldview of capitalism?
  什么是资本主义的世界观
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  Then he looks at Luther's conception of calling,
  接着他研究了路德神召的概念
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  and what it has to do with the spirit of capitalism.
  以及它和资本主义精神的关系