Well, you could say it dilutes it but it doesn't lower the price of your investment, in general.

你也可以说这是一种摊薄,但总体上,你的投资价值并没有因此减少

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well it could go twenty basis points lower but interest rates can never be negative.

呃，它可以再跌二十个基本点,但是利率永远不能是负值。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

If the profits are the problem, then the Non-profit could come in and under cut all the and lower the cost to us all.

如果利润是问题的话，可以让非营利机构操作,来减少花费。

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So the Romans, for example, outlawed volunteer fire departments, in local places, because they were afraid that volunteer fire departments could be a place where locals, especially maybe lower-class locals, could get together and then start gossiping about what they could do to cause trouble for the Romans.

所以罗马人会，比如，会驱逐当地志愿消防部门，因为他们担心志愿消防部门,会成为当地人，尤其是下层阶级集会的场所，在那谋划如何,给罗马人制造麻烦。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

They could say I won't lower my prices if you don't lower your prices, and they could put this contract in with the pricy lawyer, who's taking a day off from the divorce court, and that would secure that they wouldn't lower prices on each other.

可以协定好你不降价我就不降,然后可以找个刚处理完离婚纠纷的,著名律师来作见证人,那样他们就放心对方不会打价格战了

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

And then they found that they could freeze-dry this preparation of virus, and freeze-drying to lower the temperature, freeze it, then extract out all the water, so you're left with a powder, basically a powdered form of the virus, that could be shipped all over the world, and then reconstituted by adding water to it.

研究者们发现可以冷冻干燥这些病毒制剂,冷冻干燥就是就是降低温度,冷冻病毒,然后提取出所有水份,然后就剩下一些粉末,这主要是粉末状的病毒,这样就能将它运往全世界,并可以通过加水来恢复病毒的活性

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