It has units of time, it represents the price of time, and it is something that fluctuates through time in interesting patterns.

这是一种时间的单位,代表着时间价值,利率以它特殊的模式,随着时间上下摆动

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So here's how well off you are, here is time, and you start with nothing and you end up incredibly well off.

纵坐标代表你的处境，横坐标代表时间，你从一无所有到辉煌腾达。

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So the debt market is something worthy of studying because it really represents a market for time itself.

债券市场很值得研究,因为它恰恰代表着,证券市场的时间价值

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What the whole note is, what all these symbols are are simply representations of duration so we have a symbolic language here that's going to represent the horizontal axis the axis of duration.

什么是全音符,这些符号又都是什么呢,这些就是简单代表了持续时间,因此我们这里有一套符号语言,来代表横轴,就是时值的那条轴

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He had this thing called the drunken assembly, which was in a way kind of a mockery of parliamentary representations where his cronies would come and just get wasted and would make all sorts of flamboyant proclamations that seemed to represent what a real parliament would do.

他有个被戏称为"酒鬼议会"的东西,这个"酒鬼议会"是对议会代表们的嘲弄,他们也会开会,但不过是浪费时间,还发表一些冠冕堂皇的声明,就好像一个真正的议会似的

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If you want to know what the number c is, you say, let's put time t=0.

比如,如果你想知道系数c代表的是什么,我们令时间t=0

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Let's create a graph here that on the x axis it's going to be time, so time zero will be when you first take in a food and then one hour later, two hours later will be shown as you go from left to right, and then we'll have blood glucose level up on the y axis.

我们在这建立一个曲线图,X轴代表的是时间,所以零时间点是你第一次进食的时间,然后一小时以后,两小时以后,是从左到右呈现在图表上的,在Y轴上是你的血糖值

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