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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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

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They can be on store shelves for a long period of time, and that has to do with the economics of food, especially food available to the poor, which we'll discuss later.

因此可以在商品货架上销售很长一段时间,这也与食物的经济学价值有关,特别这类食物穷人也买得起,这个我们以后会讨论

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We add up the goods, subtract the bads-- whatever our favorite list is-- and we come to our best educated guess about the rival evaluations of not just lives as a whole, but chunks of lives.

我们把好事加起来减去坏事-,不管我们最喜欢哪些事-,我们不但可以据理推测,一生期间其他生活的价值，还能推测某段时间其他生活的价值。

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And the idea, again, is the kids who don't get rewarded say to themselves, "Well, I just spent time doing it, it must have an intrinsic value," while the children who get rewarded say, "I did it for the sticker. I did it for the toy.

再一次，没有得到奖励的孩子心里想，“我花了时间来做这件事，它一定是有内在的价值的”,而拿到奖励的小孩会说，“我是为了贴纸和玩具才做的”

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The term structure is one of the most interesting things in economics because it shows the price of time at various maturities.

经济学中,期限结构是个有趣的话题,因为它揭示了不同到期期限的时间价值

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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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Why is this and why is the price of time changing?

为什么时间的价值会改变

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