They want to make sure their financial investment is not being wasted.

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And I think you will wish you are continuing to make the investment in time. If you are down here, what I want you to do is talk to somebody.

我想你希望再接再厉,保持花在这么门课上的时间，如果你退步了，我要你做的就是和某人交谈。

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I'll let that person sit there because that person clearly didn't make the investment.

我就不会让他通过这门课,因为他显然没有尽任何的努力。

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Investment banks are very different in that a pure investment bank does not accept deposits and it doesn't make loans; it's an underwriter for securities.

投资银行是完全不同的,单纯的投资银行既不吸收存款,也不发放贷款,投行是证券承销商

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It's perfectly inscrutable as far as I'm concerned. But I think I can say with absolute certainty that one of its possible significances cannot be that the unprofitable servant should have waited to make his investment.

这对我来说很神秘，但我可以说,我很确信,它可能的含义之一,不会是让那个无益的仆人去等。

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There was sort of an economic takeoff in the 1850s and '60s in Paris because the State banks are in Paris, the State financial institutions are in Paris, and they can make or break investment in all these places.

在十九世纪五十至六十年代的巴黎,有了一次经济的腾飞,因为国家银行设在了巴黎,国家金融机构在巴黎,这些机构可以设立或取消全国的投资

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There's something called "variable life," which refers to a life insurance policy where the policyholder can make decisions about the investment of the money in the whole life policy.

有种保单叫做"可变寿险",作为终身寿险的一种,投保人可以自主选择,在终身寿险上进行多少投资

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And all of a sudden he had a crisis Well, I'm not going to get into the depth of it but our banks, because they wanted to make more and more money--and our investment bank, Wall Street--kept issuing different paper against mortgages so it made it simple to give a mortgage.

突然间危机降临在了他的头上,嗯~我不想继续深谈这个问题,但是我们的银行，由于它们想,赚越来越多的钱--还有我们的投行，华尔街--一直都在发行各种各样的抵押贷款票据,那样抵押贷款变得更加容易。

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