"They want to be able to make money, they want to be able to put food on the table, they want to be able to have better lives, they want more freedom to be economic citizens."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

They die on the operating table, but then they're brought back to life, as we put it.

他们死在手术台上,但很快他们又起死回生,我们可以这样说

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

And if they didn't need to pay me, then I wouldn't have any income to put food on the table for my wife and children.

如果他们不雇我,我就没有任何收入,来养妻活儿

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"There were other members that put ideas on the table and so we will drill down further in our opportunity to make sure that we come up with the best bill that brings the Democratic caucus and has the votes to be taken to the floor of the House."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

I think that if Ford and other car companies didn't use cost-benefit analysis, they'd eventually go out of business because they wouldn't be able to be profitable and millions of people wouldn't be able to use their cars to get to jobs, to put food on the table, to feed their children.

我觉得要是福特和其他汽车公司,不使用成本效益分析的话，他们最后就会倒闭,因为他们无法盈利,这样就会有数百万人无法开车上班，没法赚钱，养不起小孩。

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I'm going to see if I have enough money to do this in class When we played this game in the old days, during the dot com boom with the MBA students, you had to put fifty dollars on the table to get them interested.

我看看我有没有足够的现金,在之前和MBA学生做这个游戏的时候,那时候正赶上互联网大繁荣,你得拿出来50美元他们才有兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选