You're given coupon payments every six months and then, when the bond matures,you get your money back.

每六个月你会收到一次利息,当债券到期,你可以赎回本金

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You will be--you are entitled to receiving the dividends that are paid out of earnings for the rest of your life and you can give it to your children and maybe in two hundred years from now it'll be worth a lot; probably not, but it might be.

你此后会一直收到,从收益中分出来的股利,你可以把它给你的孩子,也许200年后会变得非常值钱,也可能不值钱,但还是可能值钱的

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