How many of you have a written contract, stuck with a magnet on the fridge, telling you when you're supposed to tidy up.

有人写过协议吗,在冰箱上贴个磁力贴,规定好什么时候该谁打扫房间

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I need a contract that says, here's what I want in terms of things that you're going to take as input, to begin your part of the drama, here's what you're going to produce at the output, and the details of what they do inside are up to them.

这些作家相互沟通进行工作呢？,我需要一封规格说明书,我需要一份合约，上面列出了我想要你做的事，这些是你要再开始时做的输入,这些是你要的输出,细节工作就取决于它们了。

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It's illegal to sign an agreement, to sign a contract saying you're going to restrict quantities.

签订这样限制产量的协议,属于违法行为

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If you buy a house and you don't pay the mortgage, the contract says you lose the house-- you're out--you've got to pay or it goes back to the mortgage originator.

如果你抵押贷款买房,却没有还房贷,贷款合同规定,你将被取消赎回权,失去房子,所以你必须偿还贷款,否则你的原始贷款人就会收回房子

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Well I'm relying on the contract, if you like, that the manufacturer of square root put together, which is, if I know I'm giving it two floats, which I do because I make sure they're floats, the contract, if you like, of square root says I'll give you back a float.

好吧我能靠一些类似合约来保证，如果这么说你喜欢的话,其实就是当求平方根的方法,获得了两个我已经确认了是浮点数的数后,这个类似合约的东西就会保证，返回一个浮点数。

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Yeah, so maybe even among your roommates, maybe you don't need a contract because you can manage to achieve the same ends, by the fact that you're going to be interacting with the same person, over and over again during your time at Yale.

没错,就算你和室友没有书面协议,你们一样能达到预期的目的,因为在耶鲁大学上学期间,你们总要碰面

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