Late in nineteen thirty-five, workers at several General Motors factories began a "sit-down" strike at their machines to demand better pay and working conditions.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

And nobody knows, nobody believes that we can cut spending, right? -Somebody down the road has to pay the bills Somebody down the road has to pay the bills, either by cutting spending, cutting benefits or raising taxes.

而几乎没人相信,政府能够成功节流，不是吗？，-那总得,有人来埋单啊,迟早要有人来为此埋单的，要么精简政府开支，削减福利，要么增税。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

If you believe black men are criminals, then when you see a black man who is a criminal you'll chalk it down as support but you'll pay less attention to evidence that white men are criminals and some black men are not criminals.

如果你相信黑人都是罪犯，当你看到一个是罪犯的黑人时,你就会觉得这是证据,但你不会注意其他证据,证明白人也有罪犯,黑人也有不是罪犯的。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"Now that the economy has gone down and the tuition's gone up - the army,they can pay for my college, so might as well do it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

When you pay out stock dividends you would think that now there are more shares, everyone divides by the larger number of shares, and the value of the company goes down; it's not going to work to pay a stock dividend.

当你发放股票股利时,就会意识到,股票总数增加了,每个人的股数除以增加后的总股数,每人拥有的公司价值减少,发行股票股利无法达成目的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

This week,it was the Toyota workers who laid down tools and demanded higher pay.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

If banks get in trouble and they can't pay out -if one bank gets in trouble and can't pay out on its deposits, then that can bring the whole system down because it can cause a panic among investors -among depositors and banks -and create a run on a bank.

如果银行出现问题而且他们无法支付...,如果一家银行出现问题,并且无法支付提取的存款,那么这就会使得整个系统崩溃,因为这会在投资者中引起恐慌...,在存款人和银行中引起恐慌,并且造成银行挤兑

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选