It was really the government that made the switch from five-year mortgages to the long-term mortgages.

这实际上是政府主导的改革,从五年抵押贷款变成更长期限的抵押贷款

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it's a two-and-a-half-year-long program that mixes biology, chemistry, physics and computer science together.

这门课是一个两年半的项目，涵盖了生物学、化学、物理学，还有计算机科学。

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Stocks have paid 4% more a year over this incredibly long time period than short-term bonds.

股票在相当长的一段时间里,每年都比短期债券投资收益率,高出4个百分点。

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At its extreme what I'm think of an undergraduate Education is a four-year initiation into a life-long Club. Right now students tend to think I come to University and I leave the university. And for many Of them their sole contact is when they get a limonite newsletters and solicitations for donations.

它的极端就是把4年的本科教育,发展为终生教育,现在学生总觉得,来读大学又会马上离开,真正的接触也许只有在,收到校友新闻信和捐款征询时,才感觉到。

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The board members have fourteen-year terms which is quite a long time.

小组成员有十四年的任期,确实是个很长的时间。

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To my surprise, nobody had before created a hundred-year long home price index, which seems surprising to me because the long history of home prices seems like a relevant fact; we want to know what markets do.

让我惊讶的是,此前居然没有人建立百年房屋价格指数,这点让我很惊讶,因为长期的历史房屋价格,看起来似乎是有关联的,我们很想知道市场的动向

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