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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The maturity of a mortgage is the date when it's paid off.

其中抵押贷款期限是指清偿贷款的日期

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There have also been one hundred-year bonds and there have also been perpetuities that-- in the UK, for example, the British Consoles-- have no expiration date and they have infinite maturity.

还有更长期的一百年债券,还有一种永续年金,比如说英国的大英统一公债,没有过期日,永不到期

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What Hicks said is that in these term structures, actually, I've just showed the one-period, he had one-period forward rate-- but you could do it over any combination and you can get forward rates of any maturity at any future date.

希克斯指出利率期限结构中,我刚才给你们演示了,希克斯是如何推导一年期远期利率的,但是你们通过其他组合重新推导,还算出未来任意时刻,期限的远期利率

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