Having said that, funny I was talking to somebody the other day who works for the Academy of American Poets.

有一天很巧，我遇到了一个朋友,她在美国诗人协会工作。

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We won't talk about the BCS rankings, though So the idea here is a pretty simple one.

我们并不是在说英国计算机协会排名,所以我们要讲的概念很简单。

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Recognizing this problem, the insurance commissioners in the various states have decided to form an organization, that's the NAIC, and they hold regular conferences.

在意识到这个问题的时候,各州的保险监督官,就决定去建立一个组织,就是美国保险监督官协会,并定期开会

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I mean, unless you're in the Yale entrepreneurial society ? who can name the CEOs of many companies?

换种说法吧,除非你是在耶鲁的企业家协会,否则你能叫出多少公司CEO的名字呢？

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A recent example of overselling: the National Association of Realtors has been running ads saying that home prices have always doubled every ten years.

举一个最近这方面的例子,全国房地产经纪人协会,投放了一则广告,内容是,在过去,房价每十年就能翻一番

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Northern Rock was a British building society that was investing in subprime paper in the U.S.

北岩银行是英国的一家建房互助协会,它曾在美国投资次级债券

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Saving and Loan Associations were making bad loans, especially in Texas, but in lots of other states as well -this is when Ronald Reagan was President.

当时储蓄贷款协会出现了不良贷款,尤其在德克萨斯州,不过在其它很多州也同时出现了...,当时的总统是罗纳德·里根

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It helps people who are really in trouble.

协会帮助在困境中的人

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This is something that's very important in the United States because, as I mentioned, insurance regulation is divided up over the fifty states and the problem that that creates is-- it's a nightmare for insurance companies because every different state has different laws.

在美国,这个协会是非常重要的,因为,就像我所提及的,保险监管被分散到了五十个州,这对任何一个保险公司而言,都是一个噩梦,因为各州法律各有不同

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The idea was that a lot of people can't afford a house -let's all get together and pool our money -in a Building Society or Saving and Loan Association -and then we'll loan out to some of us to buy the house.

当初的想法是,很多人都买不起房子,那我们就把钱凑在一起,放到一个建房互助协会或储贷协会里,然后向我们中那些要买房的人发放贷款

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