They cover only one part of a year and yet they carry details of thousands of transactions in hundreds of places.

它们只记录了一年的一部分,但是他们,记录了几百个地方数千宗交易的细节

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That would be like a quarter of 1% to postpone your payment by another year; so time was really cheap.

也就是说只需要付1%的1/4就能,延迟一年还款,时间的价值很低

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Good, so in the standard story you've got these two crooks, or two accused crooks, and they're in separate cells and they're being interviewed separately--kept apart--and they're both told that if neither of them rats the other guy out, they'll go to jail for say a year.

在故事里有两个罪犯,他们都被指控了 被分别关进了牢房,他们俩被单独提审,两人都知道如果他们不坦白,他们都要只需要坐一年牢

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