The men who stood around and did nothing until they were called to act earned precisely the same amount as those who had been laboring in the vineyard all day. They're not punished for their unprofitable expectation.

那些站在那里什么都没干,直到有人来催的人和那些在葡萄园里,干了一整天的人拿的钱一样多,他们没有因为没有上进心。

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you do certain amount of years in the military, and then you get what's called a GI bill,

你先在军队服役几年，当你退役的时候，你就能获得美国军队的补贴,

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We call them consols because, in the early 1700s, the British Government issued what they called consols or consolidated debt of the British Crown that paid a certain amount of pound sterling every six months forever.

我们称之为公债是因为早在十八世纪初,英国政府规定他们称之为英国皇家,统合公债或者联合公债,要求永久性地,每六个月支付一定数量的英镑

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One diet that gets discussed a fair amount, but mainly in recent years, is something called the Mediterranean Diet, and I'd like to discuss this for two reasons.

近几年有一种饮食法,引起了相当多的讨论,那就是地中海式饮食,我认为有两点原因值得我们探讨

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