Their prevailing prosperity cannot last long. A year or two at the utmost is its limit. Then, as sure as fate, will come one of the worst periods of depression that this or any country has even seen.

• 他们普遍的经济繁荣景象不会持久的，最多一二年，这个国家或任何国家所经历过的最严重的经济衰退时期必定要到来。