Officials there seemed to think that education was only for children whose parents had enough money to pay for private schools.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

So, the more enlightened view is, corporations only pay a stock dividend when they have some good news to announce.

所以更有说服力的观点是,公司发放股票股利的唯一原因是,他们有利好消息要公布了

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He was frustrated because he just lost a sale of a $2000 piece of glass that he had just made because the woman who wanted to pay him only had a credit card and he couldn't accept credit card.

他很沮丧,因为他刚刚失去一次将玻璃艺术品,以2000美元卖出的机会,有位女士想要买他的艺术品,但是只用信用卡付账,但他不愿意用信用卡交易。

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They will have to tell how long and how much it would take to pay off a card if the holder makes only the lowest monthly payment.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life and though he was a con man he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.

狄恩属于那种对生活充满激情的年轻人,虽然他还是个很自信的骗子,这是因为生活中他希望得到的东西太多了,他希望能引起人们的注意。

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The only thing they have to pay on that is a regular interest charge to the IMF as a fee for the conversion of the currency,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

It didn't-- if you needed more time to get some business done you'd have to borrow, but you'd only have to pay 1% a year.

如果你需要更多时间来完成业务,你需要借款,而只需付1%的年利息

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At this point in time, they are only allowed to use the money for IMF purposes, to pay IMF staff or replenish accounts for use,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

If you want to go live in the state of nature, that's fine, but you can't take anything from the government because by the government's terms, which are the only terms under which you can enter the agreement, say that you have to pay taxes to take those things.

如果你想生活在自然状态下，没问题，但你就不能享受任何政府福利了,因为根据政府组建条款，也是我们同意组建政府的唯一条款，规定只有你缴税了才能享受那些福利。

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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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It's very expensive when you take into account not only the direct costs, but also the costs that you pay advisors to help you make these decisions.

非常昂贵,不仅需要考虑直接成本,还要考虑,支付给帮你做决策的顾问们的费用

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