Abbas Milani, an analyst at The Hoover Institution, "I certainly know of no time in Iranian history where the democratic discourse, and the social basis of democracy have been as strong."

VOA: standard.2010.06.11

What else is Yale, but an elite institution intended to educate, morally and intellectually, ? potential members of a leadership class?

耶鲁除了是精英学院,在道德与智能上用以教育，潜在的领袖阶级成员之外，它还有什么职能？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But the very, sort of, nature of being an institution constrains almost everybody whether it's, in our case, all our investors have thirty-day liquidity.

但是，投资机构的本质在一定程度上束缚了,它所处市场里的每一个人，在我们的案例中，我们所有的投资者都拥有强大的现金流。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"BP is hugely important to the British economy in general and particularly to private interests and members of pension schemes, most of whom have got exposure to BP just simply due to the size as an institution."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Why did an inhumane institution of course not everybody who defended it thought it was inhumane but why did that system survive, persist and grow?

为什么一个不人道的制度,当然不是所有捍卫它的人都觉得不人道,为什么奴隶制度还是会生根,发芽,成长

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The 27-member bloc agreed to double loans available to eastern European countries to $68 billion and to contribute about $100 billion to the IMF as part of an overall funding increase so the institution can help countries worldwide battle the economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

The English Reformation, which begins with Henry VIII wanting to divorce and kill his various wives along the way, still had an awful lot to do with the resistance to the power of Rome and the power of the Catholic Church as an institution.

英国的宗教改革,自亨利八世开始,就是那个总爱离婚,且一辈子患有杀妻癖的君王,他仍然还要面对强大的罗马教廷,以及天主教会的反对与干涉

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

It emerged into an institution in which banks would have notes bank notes-that circulated widely and we began to think of them as money.

它出现于一个银行保有票据,的机构,这个票据就是钞票---那种流通广泛的钞票,我们把它视为金钱。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The thing about a deposit is you deposit your money as an individual and there are millions of people that all deposit in a depository institution.

所谓储蓄就是你把你的钱以个人名义存进储蓄机构,有不计其数的人会,把钱存进储蓄机构。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The equity orientation drove the returns but the diversification allowed us to deliver those returns in a stable fashion, which is incredibly important for an institution like Yale that requires a steady supply of funds to finance its operations.

股票导向型投资会推动收益率上升,但多元化能让收益更平稳,这对于耶鲁这样的机构极为重要,因为它需要稳定的资金供给,为学校运营提供财务支持

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

You get nineteen times your money over eighty-one years, but then if you take into account the inflation consumes a multiple of eleven and you're an institution like Yale that consumes only after inflation returns, putting your money into treasury bills really didn't get you very much.

1年后你的钱翻了19倍,但是如果考虑通货膨胀,在此期间侵蚀了11倍的收益,而且如果你是像耶鲁这样,减去通货膨胀调整到实际回报后再论支出,那么将钱投资于短期国库券,不会让你赚得多

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选