And there are many reasons for this, our success in eliminating infectious diseases as causes in the developed world.

还有很多原因,在发达国家我们成功地消灭了感染性疾病

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that newspapers are dying and are eliminating.

报纸正面临衰退和消失。

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I actually believe in the history of the planet, there are very, very few instances of people getting paid for taking risk; they get paid for eliminating it.

我一直相信在人类的历史上，有非常少的例子来证明人们,因为承担风险而获得了收益；,他们是因为规避了风险而收益。

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The barriers to unity presented by European geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire, eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas.

由于欧洲独特的地理条件,和当时有限的科技水平,使未来的征伐者很难建立一个广袤的帝国,清除异己和使他的意志,传播到广袤领地的每一个角落

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