You would probably not even think to say, pay me 3% interest plus the rate of inflation over the next year.

你甚至可能根本不会想到说，支付3%的利息外加来年的通货膨胀率。

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I'm oversimplifying a little bit but between wars the rate tends to come down because people think, well the war is over.

我说得有点过于笼统了,但在战争期间，税率走势却有所下降,因为人们都觉得战争结束了。

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If the rate of population growth of the United States between 1820 and 1850 had sustained over time, we'd have today approximately one and a half billion people in the United States.

如果在1820至1850年间,美国人口增长率保持下去的话,今天我们的美国,就会拥有近十五亿人口

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The interest rate has units of time, so I have to specify a time period over which I'm measuring an interest rate.

不同时间段有不同的利率,因此我必须在不同的时间段,细化不同的利率

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What Hicks said is that in these term structures, actually, I've just showed the one-period, he had one-period forward rate-- but you could do it over any combination and you can get forward rates of any maturity at any future date.

希克斯指出利率期限结构中,我刚才给你们演示了,希克斯是如何推导一年期远期利率的,但是你们通过其他组合重新推导,还算出未来任意时刻,期限的远期利率

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