"About 85 percent of the average family income is now being used just to buy food to keep a family going."

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

In 1988, we asked people in Los Angeles, are you worried that unless I buy now I won't be able to afford a house in the future?

如果在1988年问洛杉矶居民,你担不担心,如果现在不买房,以后恐怕会买不起

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But yeah, I mean, nobody now with...there's no way we can afford to buy now

但是，我想说，现在我们就没办法买得起它了，

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But shop owners say now they only see "essential customers" those who have to buy for the marriage of a son or a daughter.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

Now, instead of being the cost of traveling that distance to go and buy the product, what's it going to be?

不是走一定距离,去买产品的成本,它是什么呢

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Some of the money now goes to buy rice from Vietnam, which is then sold below cost in East Timor to help the poor.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

It's just like if you buy a house and you buy - a lot of people are very leveraged now.

就像你买了栋房子,然后买了,很多人现在都处于负债中

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The vast multitudes were still farmers, but they began to now buy goods, manufactured goods, readymade clothing and shoes, cloth, candles, soap, all kinds of foodstuffs.

他们中的大多数人仍是农民,但是他们开始购买商品,工业制成品,成衣和鞋,布料,蜡烛,肥皂,各种各类的食品

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Now, you don't have to buy that and individuals undoubtedly found the strain too much from time to time, but what's interesting, is rather the ideal, the claim, the theory.

你不必非得接受这些理论,况且现代社会常充斥着个人主义倾向,但是那些理想,主张和理论却更意味深长

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We couldn't have afforded to buy it now.

如果是现在，我们就买不起它了。

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So, maybe you wanted a really fine pot of the kind you used to be able to walk to the corner and pick up at a pottery shop, but you can't get now, so you would want to buy what the Corinthians sell. Guess what?

所以或许过去在大街的,任意一间陶器店里,你都能找到精致的陶盆,现在却找不着,那么你该选择,科林斯人的哪些商品呢,想想看

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Now, you have to understand that when you buy a bond, if you buy it at issue, you get the first coupon in six months, the second coupon in one year, the third coupon in eighteen months, and the last coupon you get at the maturity date.

你们需要了解,如果在发行时就购入债券,六个月后会得到第一笔票息,一年后第二笔,18个月后第三笔,到期时得到最后一笔票息

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Now today, the standard mortgage, which you would probably get when you buy your first house, is not fifteen or twenty--it's thirty years.

今天,标准的抵押贷款,当你买第一套房子时你或许就能得到,期限不是15或者20年,而是30年

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