"I know some people will regard that as peculiar for a digital device but it is, it's more like an album launch or a film premiere because the device is not just something for nerds, it has a cultural meaning too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

I stressed in the third lecture that like any--insurance, like any other risk management device, is an invention.

在第三次课上我已经强调过了,保险和其它风险管理工具一样,是一种发明

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The little clicker then, as I said, there will be an electronic device connected to my computer.

我刚才说了,这种小表决器,就是一种电子设备,连接到我的电脑

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What I'm suggesting to you is that this was the best information gathering and storing device that existed in the Mediterranean world.

我所想要告诉你们的是,特尔斐是地中海世界,收集和储存信息的最佳地点

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So in formalist terms, that's the way we have to understand what, if we weren't formalists, we would suppose, as I say, to be a mnemotechnical device for the purpose of communicating something about the weather in Spain. Right?

形式主义者会这样理解，但如果我们不是形式主义者，我们就会认为这个重复单纯是为了,记住西班牙的天气，对吗？

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That's a brilliant market timing device that-- I think enlightened people thought that those prices were getting high-- and also made some play on credit spreads and now on real estate, he said.

这个决策的市场时机非常正确,有见识的人都觉得,那时网络股的价格太高了,他们也参与了信用利差交易,现在又转向了房地产

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