There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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That's the thing about the real world and finance is very much about the real world.

这就是现实社会,而金融也与现实息息相关

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And that you can't do, because in the real world of course Shelly and Kagan pick out just two different names of this very same thing.

你不可能做到,因为在现实世界里,薛立和卡根指的是,同一个东西的两个不同名字

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That's overselling because we're in a real estate crisis and home prices are falling and that's the kind of thing that makes some people upset.

这分明是过度吹嘘,我们身陷于房地产危机,房价在下降,令人非常沮丧

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