He was a very prominent exponent of the idea that people should go out for their own interest.

他是个非常卓越的倡导者,他提倡人们应该追求自己的利益

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And where will people come from that, if they all follow the psychology of fear and ? self-interest that Hobbes wants to instill in us?

如果都按霍布斯灌输给我们的那样想，时刻保持着恐惧和利己的心态,那又从哪招募那些消防员，警察和军人呢？

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What he says is those forward rates are what people think interest rates will be in the future and that's called the expectations theory of the term structure.

这里所指的远期利率就是人们预期的,未来利率,我们将这种理论称作,利率期限结构的预期理论

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So, the only point of interest about this is that when do people start thinking that they're French, as opposed to from a certain family, from a certain village, from a certain region?

所以对这些感兴趣的唯一目的就是,什么时候大家开始觉得自己是法国人了,相对于某个家族,某个村子,某个地区

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Is anyone else pre-med here? Okay, so a pretty good showing. So maybe you can relate to some of the reasons I wanted to be pretty pre-med -- part of it was the interest in the science and the biology. Also, I wanted to help people -- it seemed like a really clear way that I could have a career that was challenging and involved in science, but also helping others.

你们中有医学预科的吗？,不错，有不少人,也许你们出于和我当年,想读医学预科一样的原因,一方面是受灾科学和生物学方面兴趣的驱使,另一方面,我想帮助别人,所以我似乎应该选择。

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And if those people, if you're interested in that and I realize at this point I probably lost the interest of most Americans in the room, but for the non-Americans in the room, the people who are interested in the real world as I said before, I'll put that article online and that goes through all the gory detail of this.

如果你们对足球感兴趣的话,我发现,大多数美国的同学对此毫无兴趣,但是那些美国以外的同学,如果你们对现实中的足球比赛很感兴趣,就像我之前说的,我会把文章的详细内容发布到网站上

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