来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：资本主义：成功、危机与改革 第2集 第2集》

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  and he offers interpretations, which should provoke argument.
  他提出的很多论点都引发了争论
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  For example, he interprets the demography of
  例如 他曾在经济腾飞前的那段时期
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  England in the Malthusian period,
  运用达尔文主义来说明
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  before the great surge in the economy,
  马尔萨斯主义时期
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  in essentially Darwinian terms,
  英格兰的人口统计学
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  Darwinian both with respect to culture, so social Darwinism,
  达尔文主义不仅对社会学有影响
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  but also with respect to biology.
  在生物学这一方面也有影响
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  He flirts with the idea that the children
  他抛出一个观点 认为在近代英国早期
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  of the wealthy were genetically superior
  富人家出生的孩子在基因上要优于
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  to other children being born in early modern England
  其他同期出生的孩子
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  and that that fact has something to do with
  而这件事跟经济大发展
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  why the great economic surge took place first in England;
  首先发生在英格兰有着密切的联系