"The challenge is to keep up the tempo and to continue these policies that have been placed in terms of credit flows being increased to customers and interest rates being maintained at around the ten per cent level,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

Why do people become firemen, policemen, soldiers, freedom fighters, all activities that cannot be explained in terms of self-interest alone?

不可能只用拿工资的理由，就能完全解释为什么总有人愿意做,消防员，警察，军人和争取自由的斗士？

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The Hobbesian state was intended to secure the conditions of life, even a highly civilized and cultivated life but one calculated in terms of self-interest and risk avoidance.

霍布斯眼中的国家旨在,保护人民的生命财产安全,即使是那些虽开化有教养却是为一己私利的人,也应当受到国家的保护。

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"Instead,they will get the traditional IMF lending , which comes with very austere conditions in terms of cutting budgets, in terms of raising interest rates, which is exactly the opposite of what they need to be doing at the current time."

VOA: standard.2009.04.22

If you do it in monthly terms your interest rate is r/12 because there are twelve months in a year.

如果是每月还款那么月利率是r/12,因为一年有12个月

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