来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：金融市场 第24集 第24集》

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  if a child is suddenly stricken with some unusual illness and
  如果一个孩子突然得了怪病
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  it gets written up in the newspapers,
  并登上了报纸
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  then generous contributions would come pouring into that child,
  那么这个孩子会得到大量的捐赠
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  but other children who are not so blessed get nothing.
  可其他不被上帝眷顾的孩子将一无所获
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  In the United States, we were about the last country
  在美国 大约是在上世纪
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  to jump onto the bandwagon, begun in Germany--partly I guess
  我们也投身于这一源自德国的浪潮
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  because the U.S. Is more free enterprise in its orientation.
  我想部分原因是美国定位是多发展自由企业
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  Maybe it doesn't like to adopt ideas from Europe.
  可能美国不愿接受来自欧洲的思想
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  It wasn't until the Great Depression that the U.S. Adopted
  直到经济大萧条时期
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  Altersversicherung and
  美国才采纳了养老保险
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  we still haven't adopted Krankenversicherung;
  我们仍旧没采纳医疗保险
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  we still don't have a national health insurance.
  我们还没全国性的医疗保险