Soybeans are eaten by people and fed to animals.

VOA: special.2010.02.02

If the Fed wants to push the Federal Funds Rate up and down it goes and buys short-term government bonds.

如果联邦希望推动,联邦资金利率上升下降,它将会去买短期的政府债券。

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So I've been trying to read macroeconomic models that the fed uses to predict and

所以我试着研读美联储用来预测的宏观经济模型和……

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The proposal would not limit bankers' pay, but would allow the Fed to review, and possibly veto, pay policies that cause too much risk-taking at banks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

It's contracting so the Fed is trying to prevent a serious recession by cutting interest rates; they've been cutting them rapidly.

它在减小,所以美联储正在试图阻止一个因为利率缩减,而产生的严重的经济衰退；,但是他们最近一直在降低利率。

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But the Fed would now have to seek permission from the Treasury to carry out emergency lending.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Arthur Burns, chairman of the Fed, There's a big inflation run up to Richard Nixon's reelection in 1972.

亚瑟·伯恩斯，前美联储主席，当时出现了严重的通货膨胀,一直持续到1972年,理查德·尼克松连任总统。

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Baby care experts had believed that babies must be fed at the same times every day or they would grow up to be demanding children.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Most censuses were taken, by the way, as a way of counting heads, the number of people who had to be fed at the time of a siege.

顺便提一下,大多数人口普查,都采用数人头的方法,即在围城期间统计需要给养多少人口

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The Fed has not tried to influence long-term rates this way since the nineteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

So although the New Critics were fed up with philological criticism, I don't mean to be condescending toward it or to suggest that it didn't play a crucially important role in the evolution of literary studies.

所以，虽然新批判主义,对语言学批判主义不满，但是并不是要否认语言学批判主义,在文学研究发展过程中,起到的重要作用。

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The Fed will also buy up to three hundred billion dollars of long-term Treasury bonds.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

At that time, the Fed had cut the Federal Funds Rate to 1%, we had very low short rates.

当时联储局将联邦基金利率降至1%,短期利率非常低

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She thought about her day. Between getting the children fed and the house cleaned, and preparing herself to go shopping, she had forgotten to eat at all!

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The Fed then again cut interest rates in 2001 in response to the very definite weakness of the economy.

美联储在2001年又一次降低了利率1,为了适应经济中明确的弱点。

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They were fed two-thirds of the calories they would otherwise choose to eat.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

It's very clear and that is the Fed had just cut interest rates to 1%--it was unusual-- it was much talked about.

很明显,联储局刚将利率,削减至1%,这是很少见的事情,人们对此评论纷纷

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Fed has reduced short-term rates to almost zero.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

Once interest rates hit zero you can't cut them anymore and that's what the Fed wants to do.

一旦利率下跌至零,你就再也不能减少它们,而且这正是联邦试图做的事情。

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Richard Weindruch explains. "Our data show that there is about a three-fold higher risk of developing a disease of aging in those animals fed the normal diet as opposed to those that have been on caloric restriction since they were adults."

VOA: special.2009.09.01

What Paulson wants to do is make that official that the Fed is no longer just a central bank; it's a market stability regulator.

鲍尔森想做的就是使各级政府,以及联邦政府不再单单是个中央银行;,而是市场稳定的监控者。

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"I think there is some tentative evidence that some of the things the Fed has done starting to help.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

The discount rate is the rate that the Fed charges for loans to member banks.

贴现率是,美联储对会员银行贷款的所求比率。

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The right to live with my family. The right to be well and taken care of and well-fed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.22

looks like they'll go from 3 to 2 and a half ? when's the next Fed meeting?

看上去他们会在下一次会议上,下一次美联储会议什么时候开？

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They fed on the worms that fed on the sludge. Harbor cleanup put an end to that.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

The Fed is effectively just saying we'll take those assets as collateral for loans to you.

美联储有效率地说,我们将把那些资产视为你们贷款的抵押品。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The Algenol bioreactors also produce oxygen as a byproduct and that can be fed into a power plant to burn coal more cleanly.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

The Fed has never given loans to anyone other than a depository institution that is a bank until last month, except they did so in the Depression.

上个月，联邦政府已经开始限制贷款业务,除了银行以外的其他金融机构,休想再放出一分钱的贷款，也就是在萧条时政府才会这么做。

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The market stability is going to be the Fed, the Fed's role would be broadened so that it's not just a banking regulator, it's the whole financial system.

市场的稳定将成为联邦政府的工作，政府的职责将会扩大,那么政府将不再仅仅是银行业的调控者，而变成了整个金融系统的调控者。

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