AIG chief Liddy has asserted that bonuses the company paid were necessary to retain the best and brightest talent, an assertion he expressed directly to U.S.Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a letter, adding that bonus contracts with employees were finalized well before Congress approved financial bail out funds in late 2008.

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And how can Milton have anything to show for his talent until he has -- this is the logic - until he has patiently waited for God to inspire him to write?

弥尔顿怎样才能证明自己有才除非,他有作品面世--就是这个逻辑,-直到他耐心地等待上帝指示去创作？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

Because the servant had not been willing to spend the only talent that he had been given, the master instructs him to give his one and only talent to the man who now has ten.

因为这个仆人不愿意适用他获得的唯一,的金币，主人命令他把这个,唯一的金币给了那个已经有十个金币的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He now has super-human mathematical talent, can read and remember the contents of an encyclopedia volume in a few minutes, and speak a language fluently after reading one textbook.

他现在有超过人类的数学能力，能阅读,能在几分钟内记住百科全书的内容,通过阅读一本教科书就可以,流利地讲一门语言了。

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How can Milton know that he was really and truly called by God to be a great poet until he writes something - it's not a bad question - until he has something actually to show for his talent?

弥尔顿怎么知道他是不是真的被,上帝选中了去做一个伟大的诗人,除非他真的创作出点儿什么--这是一个不坏的问题,-直到他真有可以证明自己才能的作品？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选