Old ones were getting pretty bald. Well, probably be late for dinner.I gotta head down to Mason County.

VOA: standard.other

Anyway, your loan-to-value ratio is getting pretty precarious because your house is now down 30% in value; your loan-to-value ratio, if we were to give you $5,000, would be something like 90%.

你的贷款价值比变得很不安全,因为你的房子已经贬值30%,如果我们借给你5000美金,你的贷款价值比率在90%左右

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So, you probably don't want to pick any point down here, because you're not getting anything by picking a point down there because you could have a better point by just moving it up here.

你不会选择这里以下的任意一点，因为你的回报不是最优的,上面这一点会使你有更好的回报。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The president will waste no time in Japan, getting to work almost immediately after Air Force One touches down at a Tokyo airport.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

What we've done is taken this pitch and played it all the way down an octave below it so we're actually getting back to this configuration of the pitch right next to it, and we could--then of course we could go down one more step and we would get the octave, which is a duplication of two-to-one.

我们所做的是固定一个音高，向下一路弹奏一个八度,所以事实上我们又回到了与这个固定音高相邻的音上，我们当然也可以向下再弹一组，然后得到这个八度，这其实就是两个八度对一个八度的重复。

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(Recording) Yoon says the North Korean leader is trying to "lower his son down safely from the back of a tiger, without getting eaten" a metaphor referring to Kim Jong Il's apparent plans for his youngest son to take over one day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23