They didn't have any real money so they had to pretend.

他们没有真钱，就用假的代替。

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At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted.

在你花费实际货币的店里，这些货币正变得越来越抽象。

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In 1994, nobody was making any real money from the Internet which was still very slow and hard to use.

1994年，互联网发展缓慢，难以使用，所以没有人能通过互联网挣钱。

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The report said that Joshua Norton had no real money - not even enough to pay for his burial.

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We didn't lose so much money that I say to myself "Boy that was a real mistake."

也没损失太多钱,我跟自己说“那就是个失误“

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It's a powerful psychological, you might say, illusion-- people think they want money when, in fact, they should want real goods and services.

你可能会说，这是一种，强烈的心理错觉-,人们认为他们需要货币时，实际上，他们想要的是实物以及服务。

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They are making friends, discussing the weather and politics, getting (virtually) married, even making real money.

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Tractors proved "a real money spinner for us"--until the Balkan wars ended that business, too.

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