"In that case," Dupin said, "take out your checkbook and write me a check for fifty thousand francs.

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Give me a whole number for the Fed fund's rate ? and the nearest thousand for the Dow Jones. Ken?

美联储基金利率说整数,道琼斯指数精确到千位，肯？

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

Let me just also say there are a thousand things to talk about in this novel, so I hope you'll get to some of them in section. And if you want to write about this, it's a very rich novel for writing your papers.

我想说在这本书中有很多东西可以探讨,我希望你们能够在一些章节中想想,如果你想要写一些关于这方面的东西，这是一本很能够丰富你们文章的书。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

If you pay me ten thousand dollars a month to work for you, I'll work for you and I'll think "I'm doing it for ten thousand dollars a month, that makes a lot of sense," but if I do it for nothing then I have to ask myself, "Why am I doing it?"

如果你一个月给我一万美元帮你工作，我会为你工作，但我会想,”我是为了一万美元才做的，这样更合理“,但如果我一点报酬都没有，那我就会问我自己，”我为什么要做这份工作？”

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