At that time, both gold and silver were used to support the value of the American dollar.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

And what it involves is placing a value, usually a dollar value, to stand for utility on the costs and the benefits of various proposals.

其做法包括，作出估价，通常是估计出金额，来代表功利,即分别列出成本，和各项收益的金额。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

You got to assign a dollar value to know whether you want to prevent those deaths by banning the use of cell phones in cars.

你必须用金钱来衡量,是否需要禁止司机使用手机,来避免此类事件发生。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They believed the gold standard would keep the value of the dollar high.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

The only thing worth more than the slaves in the American economy of the 1850s was the land itself, and no one can really put a dollar value on all of the land of North America.

十九世纪五十年代的美国经济中,唯一价值超过奴隶的就是土地,而且没有人能够真正对,美国北部的土地进行估值

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A gold standard,they said, would keep the value of the dollar high.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

But now this dropping of the value of the dollar is one thing that's been helping to correct the trade deficit.

目前美元的贬值,刚好可以帮助扭转贸易逆差。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

While the euro has fallen, the dollar has gained value.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

I would be looking at this--at the debt areas Student: You mentioned about the U.S. dollar falling in value recently. What kind of foreign currency vehicles or trading would you recommend to kind of hedge a bet against a dollar assuming that it continues to fall?

我会考虑这方面的投资--债务市场方面的机会,学生：你刚才提到美元,最近贬值的问题，那么哪些品种的外汇金融工具,或者外汇交易在你看来可以用来,对冲美元贬值的风险,如果我们假设美元还会将继续贬值？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Using only gold,he said, increased the value of the dollar.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

So, these are some of the controversies that arise these days from cost-benefit analysis, especially those that involve placing a dollar value on everything to be added up.

以上即为近来对成本效益分析,引发的一些争论，尤其是其中那些,认为可以用金钱衡量一切的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

They thought the value of the dollar was too high.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

And you remember, we considered some examples of cost-benefit analysis, but a lot of people were unhappy with cost-benefit analysis when it came to placing dollar value on human life.

我们还思考了些成本效益分析的例子，但许多人并不赞同,成本效益分析用金钱来衡量人的生命。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

A silver standard would lower the value of the dollar.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Well, I think that once again, they've made the same mistake the previous case did, that they assigned a dollar value to human life, and once again, they failed to take account things like suffering and emotional losses by the families.

我觉得他们犯了与前面案例,相同的错误，量化了生命的价值，但同样的，他们没有考虑受害者家人承受的,痛苦和精神损失。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

"Now of course the Chinese are beginning to lecture us, about how we need to balance our budget, and preserve the value of the dollar and avoid inflation.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10