If you look at the history of U.S. Taxes, the very simple history is World War One and World War Two.

如果你看一下美国税收历史，里面提到了一个典型的时期,就是一次世界大战和二次世界大战的时候。

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set in World War Two, so a very big moment in our history, so.

以二战为背景，这是我们历史上非常重要的时刻。

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They did it again, even more decisively in World War Two, and that's how we got progressive taxes.

而二次世界大战时，他们毫不犹豫的，再次提高了对富人的征税，这就是累进税的由来。

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And then he'd been--he was Jewish, and he was fired from his post in Strasbourg, under Vichy, that is the collaboration government of World War Two, because he was Jewish.

然后他去了--他是犹太人,他在斯特拉斯堡被解聘了,被维西政府,就是二战时候的法奸政府,因为他是犹太人

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Or Roosevelt, after World War Two, talking about our humility as a nation in the face of the sacrifice of our soldiers, or Lincoln, or Washington, These are people who understood that they were small parts of something much larger.

第二次世界大战之后，罗斯福总统，也讲过一个国家的谦逊,面对战士的牺牲，无论是林肯还是华盛顿，这些人都很请楚,他们都只是很渺小的一部分。

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And one of the best analogies you can think of is the oil rich nations of the world in post-World War Two, in the post-World War Two era, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, the Emirates, or Venezuela, name--today Russia.

做个非常恰当的类比,你们可以把棉花想象成,二战后时期的石油,想想沙特阿拉伯,伊拉克,伊朗,阿联酋,委内瑞拉,和今天的俄罗斯吧

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World War Two, I'll give you two stories.

二战,我给你讲两个故事

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But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

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You can still see in the Pantheon-- the sort of secular monument but also just Napoleonic generals one after another-- you can still see bullet holes there, from the Commune, not just from World War Two, from where people were executed.

你在先贤祠,那是安葬着诸如埃米尔·左拉等,当然一个挨一个的,也放着拿破仑一世的将军们,你在那仍然可以看到弹孔,它是巴黎公社时就留下的,不仅仅只是二战时候的,人们被处决时留下的弹孔

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s very interesting if you go back and you read about al-Qaeda, one of the things that you read about is that Arabs, after World War Two saw the United States as standing for values of liberty and democracy and equality.

有一点很有趣，It’,如果你回头读读看看关于基地组织的报道，肯定不难发现,二战以后，阿拉伯人,将美国视为,自由，民主，平等的象征。

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After World War II, there were two things that, I think, contributed to the huge housing boom at that time.

第二次世界大战后,我认为,那时房地产的巨大繁荣主要归结于两件事

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During World War One and Two, our men were out dying in Europe and people voted for someone who said, let's raise the taxes on the rich, someone's profiting from this war now.

这两次世界大战期间，我们的很多同胞战死在欧洲,人们拥护那些要求提高富人缴税水平的人，因为有的富人，是发战争财的。

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