They may have worked all their lives, but for one reason or another, many Americans have ended up in old age struggling to make ends meet.

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He's trying extremely hard to make an answer, and what he ends up doing is bringing that knowledge that he built up in Chicago, the knowledge that he gets from reading economics and sociology and Marxism.

他在里面倾其所学，让她明白,甚至用马克思主义,经济学和社会学中。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The image here that comes to mind for me is one of these deposed kings who ends up waiting on tables to make a living in New York.

我此刻想到的一幅景象,便是一位被废黜的国王,沦落到要在纽约靠当侍应生谋生的结局。

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