For example, I may have someone who promises to pay me $1 in one year or in two years or three years.

举个例子,有人对我承诺,在一年或者两年或者三年内支付我一美元

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Suppose someone has a contract that promises to pay an amount each period over a number of years.

假设某人有一份合约,承诺在数年内的不同时段内分开支付

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Huge, and one of the things that I argue in this book and also in the Princeton Projiect on National Security which I co-directed with John Ikenberry over the last three years is we have been singel-mindedly focused on the war on terror.

很大，我在这本书中试图说明一点,在普林斯顿国家安全项目中也试着强调,这一项目在过去3年内由我和约翰伊肯伯里共同负责,那就是我们仅仅盯在了一点上,我们盯着恐怖主义战争不放。

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One of the big arguments that is part of this story is when did this development of new way of fighting come about; rather quickly, over a matter of a few years, or did it stretch out over quite a long time.

人们对此最大的争议就在于,这种新型战斗方式是何时为军队所用的,是在短短几年内迅速发展起来的呢,还是在很长的一段时间逐步形成的呢

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And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.

作为Facebook的领导者，马克始终坚持选人标准，从不手软，他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为，如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。

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I may have an "IOU" From someone or I may own a bond from someone that promises to pay me something in a year or two years.

也许我握有一份欠条,或是一份合约,某人承诺,在一年或者两年内支付我一些钱

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What that means is that you would borrow $5,000 to buy a house and in five years and every year along the way you'd be paying interest on your mortgage.

它的意思是,你借了5000美元去买一所房子,期限是五年,在这五年内,每年你要归还抵押贷款的利息

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Of course, the banker isn't going to give you $1 for something that is paying $1 in a year because the banker knows that $1 could be invested at the interest rate.

当然,银行不会因为某些东西,在一年内收益一美元,而给你一美元,因为银行知道一美元能在利率的基础上,用来投资

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