It was not at all like the roaring twenties of a century before.

一点都不像 20 世纪“ 20 年代”。

The forces may concern themselves with us or they may not, but it seems to me, and seemed to the Widow Slater, that people live or die, thrive or pine, quite beyond human reason.

这些力量可能关心我们，也可能不关心，但在我看来，在寡妇斯莱特看来，人们生死，还衰败，这完全超出了人类理性。

Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers- in this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people.

我们不可能在小街小巷备受煎熬同时拥有繁荣街在这个国家，我们将作为一个民族，一个整体，有福同享，有难同当；同进退，共命运。

12. Because of this structure, Silicon Valley survived the recessions of the early 1980's, while Route 128 did not. Silicon Valley is unique because it has been forced to reinvent itself and has survived, even prospered.

由于这种结构，面对20世纪80年代初期和90年代初期经济衰退，硅谷挺过来了，而128号公路区却挺不过去。硅谷独一无二，因为它被迫彻底改造自己从而幸存下来，进而发达起来。

Energy, by nature, replaces itself and thrives with use. A false conception of energy however results in a psychic refusal to transform completely available energy into physical terms, merely because of the subconscious belief that such a transformation is basically impossible.

能量，本质上，会自行替换而且愈用愈，对能量错误概念，造成灵性上拒绝把完全可用能量转换为物质型式，仅仅因为潜意识信念，认为这种转换基本上不可能。