It gets worse: at a subsequent family dinner, his father took him aside and told him it would have been better if he, rather than his younger brother, had died in a car accident several years earlier.

接着更糟的是：在随后的而一次家庭晚餐中，父亲将他拉到一旁，对他说，如果几年前在交通事故中死去的人是他而不是他的弟弟，那就好了。

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It would have been better had this happened in a strategic way, and before rather than after the next extreme weather event.

假如这场争吵当时能以一种战略性的方式展开、而且能在接下来的一起极端天气事件之前而不是之后展开，那么本会有更好的效果。

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But critics of economics, if they believe that any kind of social analysis is possible, had better say what other simplifying assumption they would rather use.

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The U.S. economy would have enjoyed much better performance if the burden of spending had been reduced rather than increased.

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