We were twelve brothers, sons of one father. One is no more, and the youngest is now with our father in Canaan.

我们本是弟兄十二人，都是一个父亲的儿子，有一个没有了，顶小的如今同我们的父亲在迦南地。

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Twelve months ago, the panic sown by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers had pushed financial markets close to collapse.

12个月之前，由雷曼兄弟的破产激发的恐慌将金融市场推至几近崩溃。

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But they replied, "Your servants were twelve brothers, the sons of one man, who lives in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more."

他们说：“仆人们本是弟兄十二人，是迦南地一个人的儿子，顶小的现今在我们的父亲那里，有一个没有了。”

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To add to the problem, he had been employed by the Examiner for 30 years but not consecutively. (He left school at twelve, and worked to send his younger brothers through Stanford University.) So when the newspaper eliminated its entire circulation department, my dad was not only out of work, he was out of any chance to receive a pension.

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