🔗Paraphrase/💡Language Point:
1. 诺奖得主、桂冠诗人 - Nobel Laureates
2. 持续的头疼、下雨 - Persistent headache or rain
3. 暴露在阳光下和患皮肤癌有着直接的关联。- There is a direct correlation between exposure to sun and skin cancer.
4. 反之亦然 - vice versa
5. empirical evidence/knowledge/research - 实践经验的证明、知识、研究
6. 保持独立思考 - retain independent thinking
7. 采掘工业，提炼业 - extractive industry
8. 我终于设法摆脱了袭击我的乌云。 - I finally managed to break free from the clouds attacking me.
9. 一个富裕家庭/小康生活、小康社会、小康大道- a well-off family/life/society/avenue
better-off; best-off
10. provide new insights into sth. 为...提供了新想法
得出答案 - arrive at/reach the answer （虎哥说颇有到达彼岸的意思哈哈哈）
11. extractive institutions VS inclusive institutions 榨取性制度vs内生性制度
12. a tale of two cities 双城记
13. 翻译练习：
The correlation between the institutions in a society and its prosperity does not necessarily mean that the former is the cause of the other. Rich countries differ from poor ones in many ways - not just in institutions - therefore probably there could be other reasons for their prosperity and their patterns of institutions.
📰Background Information/Words of Wisdom (WOW!)
1. 贫富之根 - 制度决定论
2. 引出接下来的institutions → prosperity/poverty 的实证性问题
