来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：欧洲文明 第21集》

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  which I don't think is in your book.
  我觉得你们的书中应该没有提到这一点
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  Lenin implemented the New Economic Policy.
  列宁实施了新经济政策
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  As he and the other Soviet leaders grappled with a country
  当他正与其他苏维埃领导人一起努力应对
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  in virtual collapse,
  这个实际上已经垮掉的国家时
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  he recognized that the ideology of communism,
  他意识到共产主义这一意识形态
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  which called for the abolition of private property,
  共产主义提倡放弃私有财产
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  private ownership,
  私有产权
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  and the destruction of the free market,
  以及破坏自由市场
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  would have to be sacrificed for the future.
  他意识到共产主义将会为未来作出贡献
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  You simply had to be able to feed people.
  一个国家最起码要有能力养活人民
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  You had to have peasants not hoarding what they produced,
  要防止农民们屯粮
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  or waiting for higher prices.
  买以高价