He says they might be trying to increase their dopamine levels to make up for the deficits in their reward system.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

They told him that if earnings go up-- we try to keep a target payout ratio-- but if earnings suddenly shoot up, we're not going to increase our dividends right away because that would set too high an expectation and we don't want to have to cut it.

他们告诉他,如果收益提高,我们会努力维持既定的股利发放率,但如果收益大涨,我们不会马上提高股利,因为这样会导致过高的期望,我们也不想降低股利

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For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

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He says they might be attempting to increase their dopamine levels to make up for the deficits in their reward system.

VOA: special.2009.09.29

If another receptor operating from a different ligand does the same thing, generates an enzyme which causes cyclic AMP to increase, the rate of cyclic AMP increase is going to go up faster than if only one of these was activated.

如果受另一种配体激活的受体,能够完成相同的过程,即激活一种能够促进cAMP生成的酶,cAMP的生成速率会比,只有其中之一被激活时更加快

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Sometimes,yellow newspapers would also make up exciting news stories and false interviews to increase sales.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

They may be hooked up to intravenous lines or may be using catheters which increase the risk of infection.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

India has snapped up nearly half the precious metal the IMF is selling to shore up its finances and increase lending to developing countries.

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"We're still trying to feel our way along the river and see where the fish are, and I think we'll end up bringing in more commercial fisherman to increase our harvest of these fish."

VOA: standard.2010.07.19