That customer ended up asking for a discount, and I thought we should have offered the discount first, without waiting to be asked.

最后那位客户要求打折。我觉得我方应该先提出给予折扣，不应等顾客提出。

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They go back to ancient times, but I'm going to talk about some of our modern institutions and I'm going to talk first about discount bonds.

它能追溯到远古时代,不过今天要讲的是现代商业机构的利率,首先要讲的是贴现债券

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The first thing is a discount bond.

首先是贴现债券

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