If no one owns the resource concerned, no one has an interest in conserving it or fostering it: fish is the best example of this.

如果没人拥有相关的资源，就没有人有兴趣去保护或培育它：鱼类就是最好的例子。

youdao

This seems to me to contradict all sensible human nature, which dictates that one stays in touch with those in whom one has a genuine interest or delight, and one steers well clear of everyone else.

由我看来，这与所有人类敏感的天性相背离，即一个人与他真正喜爱或感兴趣的人在一起，并从其他人旁边逃离。

youdao

One of them is the forward rate and the other one is inflation indexed interest rates.

一个是远期利率，另一个是通胀指数化利率。

youdao

But this is the great danger America faces -- that we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups, each seeking to satisfy private wants.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

If you have an interest rate--this is approximately equal to-- one plus the real interest rate is equal to divided by one plus the rate of inflation.

如果你知道名义利率,那实际利率约等于,这里应该是=,/

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The Hobbesian state was intended to secure the conditions of life, even a highly civilized and cultivated life but one calculated in terms of self-interest and risk avoidance.

霍布斯眼中的国家旨在,保护人民的生命财产安全,即使是那些虽开化有教养却是为一己私利的人,也应当受到国家的保护。

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And they'd rather keep it safe even at one-one-hundredth of a percent interest in a cash account than risk losing it all on a roulette-wheel stock market.

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And yet, for all its imperfections, the Turtle King was so much more practical than sitting in a stopped taxi or crowding onto a Beijing bus that it had become what all new-energy technology is somehow supposed to be: cheap, simple, and unobtrusive enough so that using it is no longer a matter of sacrifice but one of self-interest.

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Those familiar with the workings of the executive branch appreciate that no decision of any consequence -- let alone one of such intense interest to the Congress -- is taken without considering the nature and timing of its presentation on Capitol Hill.

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