They can stall you for a year; you're trying to sell the house, they hire lawyers and sue you and you've got to hire lawyers.

能拖延你整整一年的时间,当你准备卖掉房子,他们会请律师起诉你,然后你也不得不请律师

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

All right, you can't sue Yale later if you had a bad hair day.

发现你糟糕的发型可别起诉耶鲁大学

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

You can get away--you can sue people for stealing melody.

但是这不成立，你可以起诉别人抄袭你的旋律。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

And so there was a dispute and the pharmaceutical company sued the South African government to try to prevent their buying the cheap generic, as they saw it, pirated version of an AIDS drug.

因此这存在着纠纷,制药公司起诉了南非政府,以阻止他们购买这些低价的非专利药，在他们看来，这些都是盗版的艾滋病药。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

A corporation is an entity that could be sued or could lose more money than it's worth, but the value of a corporation can never fall below zero to the investors because the investors are not liable for the mistakes of the corporation.

公司是一个实体,它可能被起诉,或者亏损额超过了自身的价值,但是对于投资者而言,公司的价值永远不会小于零,因为投资者对公司的过失,不负有责任

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You can never--there's a strong legal precedent for not being able to make a claim about stolen bass, because these basses are limited in number, they involve rather simple harmonic progressions, and they've been used over the centuries.

可是你绝对不可能起诉别人抄袭低音部，这个强有力的法律判例，因为低音部的选择很有限，他们由很简单的和声进程组成，几个世纪以来一直在反复使用。

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

Otherwise, if you don't buy all the debt, you still have a problem because those debtors can go after you because they are-- they're not shareholders but they have rights and they could come in and say, we don't like what you're doing; we're going to sue you because we think that you're doing something contrary to our interest as debtors.

不然,如果你没接下全部债务,就不能安枕无忧,因为这些债务人会跟着你,他们不是股东,但他们有权利,他们会跳出来说,我们不喜欢你的做法,我们要起诉你,因为你的做法违背了我们债权人的利益

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