We've had episodes in our history when real interest rates have made major moves and these movements are very important for what is happening in our lives.

历史上有一些真实事件,实际利率发生很大的变化,这些变化对我们的生活,有非常重要的影响

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This was an actual event.

这是真实的事件。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

With this basic principle of utility on hand, let's begin to test it and to examine it by turning to another case, another story, but this time, not a hypothetical story, a real life story, the case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stevens.

有了这条最基本的功利原则，让我们检验一下这条原则,是否适用于另一案例，而这一次，就不再是假定的事件了，是个真实的故事，女王诉达德利和斯蒂芬斯案。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

We would be told that he was very honest and told his father he chopped down a cherry tree, which would be baloney, but we would be told that too. But I think we would be told also very many true things, which came down to us.

我们还被告知他很诚实,因为他告诉父亲,他砍倒了一棵樱桃树,这简直是胡扯,但我们还是会听到这些,除此之外,我们还会听到一些真实的历史事件

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