Images of 1929 – of financiers leaping from buildings, unemployed men sleeping on park benches, long lines at soup kitchens, and impoverished boys selling apples on the street – are not on our minds now. The 1929 crash just does not seem relevant to most people today, probably because we survived the 1987 and 2000 crashes with few ill effects, while 1929 seems not only the distant past, but another world.
我们已经忘记了1929年的情形。当时，金融家门跳楼，失业者睡在公园的椅子上，救济食品站排起了长龙，而穷孩子们则在街头兜售苹果。1929年股市大跌对于当今的大多数人而言毫不相关，或许是因为我们从1987年后2000年的大跌中脱身而出，仅仅略有影响，而1929年不仅是遥远的过去，而且还是另一个世界了。