You can never--there's a strong legal precedent for not being able to make a claim about stolen bass, because these basses are limited in number, they involve rather simple harmonic progressions, and they've been used over the centuries.

可是你绝对不可能起诉别人抄袭低音部，这个强有力的法律判例，因为低音部的选择很有限，他们由很简单的和声进程组成，几个世纪以来一直在反复使用。

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I'm going to give a kind of a history of financial regulations in the United States that makes it rather a simple story.

我要讲讲美国金融监管史上的一些要点,我们长话短说

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Reason is not about simple observation, but rather, it is about making, production, or as he says, " "making like consequences produce the desired effects."

理性并不是单纯的观察，它是创造，制造，像他说的，“使它产生我们想要的结果“

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We have only so-called simple meters rather than compound meters.

我们只讨论那些所谓的单拍子,不讨论复拍子

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There's a very simple reason why real estate tends to be held in limited partnerships rather than corporations and that reason is the corporate profits tax.

人们之所以,通过有限合伙的形式来持有商业房产,而不是以公司的形式来持有商业房产,其原因非常简单,那就是公司利润税

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