"Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom;

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Unencumbered by, I guess, the conventional wisdom, we started out at Yale on a path that I think is--fundamentally that changed the way that institutions manage portfolios.

抛开惯常思维和传统做法,我们在耶鲁开创了一条新路,一条我认为,从根本上,改变了机构投资管理方式的新路

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For a long, long time the general wisdom was there were not heavy casualties in hoplite battles -- people calculating on what I was just talking about.

长期以来的共识是,方阵战不会造成大规模的伤亡,人们相信这一点

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