When you buy a house, you borrow the money and you pay it back in fixed-- it would usually be monthly, but let's say annual payments.

当你买了一座房子,你贷了些款,然后你在一定的时间内偿还一部分,一般来说都是按月来算的,但是假设我们是按年支付的

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You pay every year a fixed amount on your house to the mortgage originator and then after so many-- n is 30 years, typically--you would then have paid it off.

你每年都在你的房子上支付一定数目的偿款,给抵押商然后,数年后,设n是30年,一般来说你已经能偿清贷款了

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