"The failure to devise a clear, Mr.Secretary,and credible plan for employing TARP, has also resulted in a massive waste, some people believe,of taxpayer dollars,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

We have theories--mathematical theories-- that lead us to devise financial structures, which are complicated devices just like engines or nuclear reactors.

金融学中的理论,数学理论,能帮助我们构造金融工具,金融工具就像发动机,或者核反应堆一样,都是复杂的工具

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He has all the information he knows that has been reported on the various elements on file cards He even carried them around in his pocket and he would look at them from time to time and try to devise a scheme.

他将所有他知道的,已经研究出来的元素的信息放到文件卡片上,他将它们随身携带在口袋里,这样他就可以时不时地看它们了,并且试图设计出一个图表。

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This is the first global conference that aims to tackle the problems that result from climate change and devise strategies to help nations adapt to these changes.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

In order to devise an insurance contact that does this job, we have to have a contract between an insurance company and the insured.

要想设计一个保险合约,要想做这项工作，我们得在保险公司和,被保险人之间建立一个合约。

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When people first devise some new financial instrument it typically has trouble.

当某种金融工具刚被设计出来时,它通常会存在问题

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It's not easy to devise this and the concept is very simple.

设计保单并不那么容易,仅仅一条概念太单薄了。

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They had to work on that, they had to devise-- they had to get an appraisal industry that could appraise houses and get some idea of what they're really worth.

他们得做些工作，他们要设计出-,他们不得不借助于评估机构,以便于鉴定房屋情况，并且得知一些,其真实价值的参考意见。

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So, that means we have to devise ways of sharing with people that we've never met, that we don't care about--I mean, maybe we care about everybody, but we don't have any particular emotional ties to them-- and they're very different people.

那意味着我们必须设计一些方法,使我们与素未谋面的，并不亲近的人们一同分摊风险，也许我们非常博爱，但未必对所有人都会怀有特殊情感-,分摊者应该是与我们非常不同的人。

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