"Let us settle it, expand and love our homeland." Mr.Netanyahu reluctantly imposed a partial freeze on West Bank construction under pressure from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

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In fact, our readiness and potential to experience happiness is mostly depended on our state of mind, not on our status, or the states of our bank account.

事实上，我们的准备和体验幸福的可能性,主要由我们的心境决定，不是我们的地位或银行账户状况。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

One of the sentences that I'll repeat throughout the class is that happiness is much more contingent on our state of mind than our status or the state of our bank account.

有一句话我会在课程中经常引用,快乐由我们的精神状态而定，而不是社会地位或银行存款。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In response to the subprime crisis that we are now in, our central bank, the Federal Reserve, has been cutting interest rates aggressively to try to save the economy that appears to be declining.

为了积极应对,目前的次贷危机,我们的中央银行,也就是美联储,已经调低利率,来积极地拯救正在衰退的经济

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选