And the most important thing in the Southern code of honor, I think, safe to say, was reputation.

南方人所谓的荣誉的核心部分,我以为,可以肯定的说,是声誉

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That's how paper money got started, as bearer notes, because if you had gold with the goldsmith you could spend the note, at least within the town that you live in where the goldsmith was known and had a reputation.

纸币就以不记名票据的形式出现了,如果你的金子存在金匠那里,你可以直接支出这些票据,至少在你所居住的城镇可以这样做,因为金匠在本地有着并众所周知的信誉

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I know this is true, that is, I know I have the reputation, both because I periodically in my student evaluations get told I'm one of Yale's harsher graders, and because every now and then the Yale Daily News will have an article about grade inflation and they'll always ask me, " ... Well Professor Kagan is somebody..."

这是真的，而我之所以有这样的名声,是因为在学生定期评估时,我被告知自己是耶鲁最严厉的人之一，还因为那不时出现的耶鲁日间新闻,有篇文章会谈到关于成绩膨胀的事,人们总会问我“,卡刚教授“

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Your banker understands that your business can't pay the money back and that the bank has a reputation in the community of helping business people, so they won't ask for the money even though it's a short-term loan that they made to you.

他会理解,你的公司可能无法还钱,在业界里银行向来,有帮助企业家的美名,所以他们不会要求你还钱,即使他们借给你的是短期贷款

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