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

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In order to keep the currency convertible they had to keep interest rates high to prevent people from demanding the gold.

为了保持货币的转换性,他们不得不将利率提高,以防人们向他们索求金子的兑换。

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So it was very important that we keep the motivation high so that they were not in the compassion of time and the requirement set for very high-stress jobs climbs under the way.

使这一动机足够强烈,是十分重要的,这样不会过分在乎时间,高压力工作带来的要求,也就不那么重要了。

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

VOA: special.2010.07.01

In fact, if the other person is working hard, or is cutting back on their carbon emissions, you have every bit more incentive to not work hard or to keep high carbon emissions yourself.

实际上,如果其他人正在努力工作,或者正在尽量减少碳排量,你总会有想偷懒的动机,或者总是继续大量排碳

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Congress wanted to keep them high.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Industrial leaders wanted to keep them high,too.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

Millions of people can barely find enough to keep themselves alive and unemployment is reported as high as 40 percent.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

"At the moment every country arrives at the negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible and never to make commitments unless someone else does first.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

As a major contributor to such loan guarantees, Germany wants stricter measures in place to keep countries from running up such high debts and to regulate the banking and financial sectors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26