What we ought to be doing is pursuing the kind of broad-based prescription for recovery and stimulating this economy that has always worked: fiscal discipline in Washington and tax relief for working families, small businesses and family farms."

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

The possibilities of freedom must always, in their view, be balanced with the world as it as--not as it ought to be.

在他们看来,自由的存在可能性,必须与现实相结合,而不是理所当然的

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We knew this was trying to do squaring, so intellectually we know we can square -4, it ought to be 16, but what happens here?

我们知道程序是用来求平方数的，那么按理说我们可以来求-4的平方，也就是16，但是程序结果是怎么样的呢？

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So, it really is -it really ought to be on the bank's balance sheet and it ought to be regulated by the bank regulators, but there was a failure to do that and that is the problem that we are in currently.

所以说,它确实该...,它应该反映在银行的资产负债表上,同时接受银行监管体系的管理,但这却没能实现,这就是我们目前面临的问题

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