He began to read: (Music) "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent,a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

This is by the way--just because one can make this claim and, I think, make it stick in certain cases, doesn't mean that the proposition is any less outrageous.

还要指出的是　就算有人提出了这种理论，有些情况下甚至能说通，并不说明这种说法就能让人接受了。

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I think the simplest way to understand Modigliani-Miller proposition is the following: imagine that we, as a board, decided to pay a dividend of $5 a share.

理解莫迪利阿尼和米勒命题,最简单的方式是,假设我们构成了一个董事会,决定以每股5美元的比例发放股利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Here is Christopher Cruise reading the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

We should be able to use nucleus accumbens activation to predict the people that are more likely to take risks, cause they see the upside of that risky proposition more.

我们会利用伏隔核的活动,来预测那些更喜欢冒险的人的选择，因为他们往往能从风险中发现机遇。

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That seems to me to be a fairly out-there proposition. And yet, the evidence is so overwhelming, that really nobody has surfaced to suggest that indeed this does not happen. John Geiger says there is a wide acceptance of the Third Man experience among the scientific community and the general public.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

That itself is an eminently contestable proposition.

这句话的本身即是一个极佳的可辩主题。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

The plan calls for Iran to send uranium abroad for enrichment, but Tehran countered with conditions to what was presented as a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

In particular, all languages, at minimum, are powerful enough to convey an abstract notion like this; abstract in the sense that it talks about thoughts and it talks about a proposition and spatial relations in objects.

尤其是所有的语言都至少,能够有效地表达抽象概念,在某种意义上来说,抽象概念能够表达思想,能够表述物体的位置与空间关系

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Once you get this information then you are going to be able to differentiate between a risky proposition for purchase to a less risky ."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Focusing on one nutrient is a losing proposition, according to some people, but there are others who say that, nope some nutrients prevail over others and are highly important compared to other things that you might be concerned with.

对一些人而言,只关注一种营养的多寡,就像是一宗亏本买卖,是一叶障目的,但还有其他人说,不对,某些营养比其他营养更关键,而且相比其他,营养更应成为需重点考虑的部分

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When Modigliani--this sounds like a very strong proposition about dividend irrelevance.

当莫迪利阿尼...他对股利无关性的表述,听起来有些绝对

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Let me start out by putting what I think is a relatively controversial proposition on the table and that's that this investment management business, when stripped down to its bare essentials, is really quite simple.

让我从一个,相对争议的话题开始,投资管理业务,当剥离种种表象追溯到其本质时,其实非常简单

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

A casino does not have a risk that the law of large numbers will be repealed and a roulette table will be a long-term losing proposition or a craps table will be a long-term losing proposition.

一个赌场不会有,大数定理被替代,或者轮盘赌和,双骰赌博会是长期亏本买卖的风险。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

According to Modigliani and Miller, if you add taxes to their debt irrelevance proposition, it means that companies will want to borrow a lot and the real advice they would be giving to Bill Gates is: what's the matter with you? Why aren't you borrowing money?

根据MM理论,如果在负债不相关理论中加入税负因素,就意味着公司愿意大量负债,他们会给比尔·盖茨一个建议,你脑子有问题吗,为什么不借钱

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