When the date came, you would cut the coupon off and go to the bank and get your interest payment.

到息日到了以后，你就可以剪下这张息票拿到银行,去兑换利息。

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At the end of the loan upon your payment of the principal and of sufficient additional interest, John Milton, Sr., the goldsmith, would return to you the gold that you had entrusted to him.

在贷款期限到期时，在你支付了本金,和额外的利息后，金匠约翰弥尔顿会把你托付,给他的金币还给你。

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When you first buy a house most of your payment is going to interest.

在贷款的初期,你偿还的主要是利息

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Whereas, at the beginning, the mortgage balance is dropping only very slowly because you've got a lot of interest to pay and your mortgage payment is constant.

而在贷款初期,贷款余款减少的则非常缓慢,这是因为还款额是固定的,同时你还要偿付大量的利息

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Your mortgage payment is constant through time but the fraction of it that goes to paying off principal versus interest changes through time and it just changes as dictated by this formula.

抵押贷款每月还款是固定的,但是其中本金和利息的比例关系,会随时间而改变,这是由这个公式所决定的

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