Think about the advent of hedge funds -twenty or twenty-five years ago, hedge funds were a blip on the radar screen.

想想对冲基金刚出现时,差不多20或25年前,它就像雷达屏幕上的一个小点

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A Life of Her Own is a book that I became obsessed with, oh, about five or six years ago.

她的人生》是一本让我着迷的书,大概五六年前

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Suppose the planet were hit by a comet-- this happened--something like this happened sixty-five million years ago, so it could happen again.

假设这个星球被一颗彗星击中-,这样的事，大约六千五百万年前,发生过，所以它还可能再发生。

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Five hundred years ago, that wouldn't have sounded dark.

五百年前,这个听起来绝对不阴暗

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