And I'm not expecting you to do that calculation here, because it involves the calculator, among maybe a piece of paper as well.
我并不期望你们去做这个计算,因为它需要一个计算器,也许还需要一张纸。
I like books. I'm old-fashioned. I like the paper copy, you know.
我喜欢书籍。我是个守旧的人。我喜欢纸质的书。
Suppose you are a naive investor and you say, okay I'm going to invest in companies' paper, which is their promise to pay --their IOU.
假如你是一个菜鸟投资者,想投资于这些公司的债券,债券就是他们的偿还凭证或者说欠条
These would have been inscriptions either on pottery, which the earliest ones are,or on stone, but otherwise I'm sure there was writing on perishable material-wooden plaques, probably not yet paper, but these would have been destroyed.
有些是刻在陶器上的铭文,最早期的时候,是刻在石头上的,但另外,我能肯定,有些是写在易腐蚀的材质,比如木头,或者瓷片上的,当时应该还没有出现纸,但是这些都被毁坏了
I'm going to the library to write a paper,
我要去图书馆写一篇论文,
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