They could say I won't lower my prices if you don't lower your prices, and they could put this contract in with the pricy lawyer, who's taking a day off from the divorce court, and that would secure that they wouldn't lower prices on each other.

可以协定好你不降价我就不降,然后可以找个刚处理完离婚纠纷的,著名律师来作见证人,那样他们就放心对方不会打价格战了

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to bring people on in short-term contract work.

关于雇佣短期合同工。

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On the other hand, if we had a quarter as much venture capital, I think that would be in the sense the world would contract too much.

换句话说，如果资金数是风险资本的四分之一，我想现在订立的合同,太多了。

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Maybe it's not always the raider; it's that some employees had trusted in an implicit contract that they were offered by their employer.

也许也不都是这些公司蓄意收购者；,也许是一些雇员相信了他们雇主给他们的,暗示性承诺。

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This is a contract with his father in this passage.

这段话是他与父亲的合同。

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All right, so it might be that again, the problem with enforcement, although actually in 1880 America, it's not clear that they couldn't have enforced that contract.

好的,但是我刚才说了强制性的问题,虽然说那是1880年的美国,当时这种合同是否违法没有明确的界定

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Machiavelli speaks of the prince, while Hobbes speaks of the sovereign, that is a kind of impersonal or in Hobbes' language, artificial power created out of a contract.

马基雅维利探讨君主，而霍布斯则探讨主权，这算是不受个人感情影响的，在霍布斯的说法里，君主的权力是由契约产生的。

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So if you get the CD set, not only do you get a wonderful beginning library of classical music but in effect you get a lifetime service contract with it.

所以一旦你买了整套CD,你不仅可以拥有一个古典乐图书馆,而且还可以享受终身服务

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You put some inputs in, it has a contract that says if you put the right kind of inputs in you'll get a specific output coming out, but you don't have to know what's inside of that box.

你可以将输入一些内容,它相当于一个条件合约,如果你的输入是正确的，你就能得到特定的输出,但是你不知道盒子里面有些什么。

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And, we enter into a contract. You walk in here, you have certain expectations of me.

我们就定下了契约，我走进来，你对我会有所期待。

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Suppose they have a written contract, or even an unwritten contract, what enforces the contract for colluding firms or crooks in jail?

假如他们签了一份书面协议,或干脆口头的,他们怎么强制履行呢

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Or, if you don't believe Spinoza, if you don't believe his authority is sufficient, consider someone who you'll be reading in a couple of weeks, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the Social Contract.

或者，假如你不相信斯宾诺莎，假如你不信,他的权威性，那么想一想几星期之后,你们将要读到的一个人，让·雅克·卢梭，在《社会契约论》中。

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If you rat someone out in jail, someone puts a contract out on you.

如果你坦白了,你是在自找麻烦

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