"Neither monetary policy nor the financial system will be well served if our central bank is deprived from interest in and influence over - the structure and performance of the financial system."

VOA: standard.2010.03.17

In patriarchal societies there tends to be an inordinate degree of interest placed on the virginity of young women.

在父权社会里,对于年轻女性的贞操,人们有着极大的兴趣。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But just to make sure, to stimulate interest, every Tuesday in recitation there'll be a ten minute quiz based upon the content of the homework.

但是只是确认一下，为了激发你们的兴趣，每周二的背诵课,将会有10分钟的测试,内容则是基于你们的作业。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

"Instead,they will get the traditional IMF lending , which comes with very austere conditions in terms of cutting budgets, in terms of raising interest rates, which is exactly the opposite of what they need to be doing at the current time."

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

Why do people become firemen, policemen, soldiers, freedom fighters, all activities that cannot be explained in terms of self-interest alone?

不可能只用拿工资的理由，就能完全解释为什么总有人愿意做,消防员，警察，军人和争取自由的斗士？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"That is why I am talking publicly, clearly,frankly that this resolution taken by the press syndicate in the early 80s should now be revised, to be re-thought for the interest of Egypt, for the interest of the peace, for the interest of the future of the young generations, of the coming generations,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.08

What he says is those forward rates are what people think interest rates will be in the future and that's called the expectations theory of the term structure.

这里所指的远期利率就是人们预期的,未来利率,我们将这种理论称作,利率期限结构的预期理论

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The usual function of my equivalent of Power Point isn't quite the same today because I'm taking an interest in some of these diagrammatic matters as well and, as I say, I will be pointing to them.

以前我的粉笔相当于幻灯片的功能,但是今天不太一样,今天我们会用到一些图表，我会指着它们讲解。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Is anyone else pre-med here? Okay, so a pretty good showing. So maybe you can relate to some of the reasons I wanted to be pretty pre-med -- part of it was the interest in the science and the biology. Also, I wanted to help people -- it seemed like a really clear way that I could have a career that was challenging and involved in science, but also helping others.

你们中有医学预科的吗？,不错，有不少人,也许你们出于和我当年,想读医学预科一样的原因,一方面是受灾科学和生物学方面兴趣的驱使,另一方面,我想帮助别人,所以我似乎应该选择。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

I suspect that with the subprime crisis the Fed will be pushing real interest rates down dramatically again and we may be in a period of negative real interest rates again.

我推测,由于次贷危机,美联储会又一次大幅下调实际利率,我们可能会再次进入,负实际利率的时代

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选