This is because investors are able to get a higher interest rate than what your bond pays so in order to offset the difference your bond has to be sold at a lower cost.

这是因为投资者能够获得比你手中的债券所支付的更高的利率，来弥补不得不以一个较低的价格出售你手中的债券的价差。

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An offset is simply the difference between UTC and local time, whereas the time zone is a named set of rules describing how the offset changes over time.

偏移量仅仅是UTC和本地时间之间的差值，而时区则是一个具名的规则集合，描述了偏移量该如何随着时间的变化而变化。

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The advantage you get from learning from your friends will offset any intrinsic difference between OS, or between programming languages.

这样的好处是从朋友那儿学习可以弥补复杂的操作系统差异或者编程语言差异(给你造成的困惑)。

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As he did at the federal level, petitioner offset on his 2005 New York State return, as a deduction, a capital loss resulting from the difference between his outside tax basis and his inside tax basis in Fifth Avenue against the gain realized on the sale of the office building.

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