The critical thing about a discount bond is it pays no interest.

要记住贴现债券不支付利息

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Now, the critical thing to understand about a corporation is that in order to value a share in a corporation you absolutely have to know the number of shares outstanding.

理解这类公司的关键在于,要衡量一家公司股票的价值,你必须清楚总共发行的股票数量

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That is the critical thing.

这是关键性所在

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This is the remarkable thing about so many of Milton's similes: they're always bursting out of whatever critical or theological constraints that we work so hard to impose on them.

这是弥尔顿的比喻中的亮点：,它们总是能从我们强加的,无论多批判多神学的束缚中,挣脱出来。

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Yes, sure. Most of this opposition comes from people who are critical of places where I depart from the traditional ethic of the thing to do for human life.

当然可以，大多数的反对观点,都来自于这样的人，他们批评说，我的立场偏离了,关于如何对待人类的生命的传统伦理。

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The critical thing is the loan-to-value ratio, or LTV.

其中关键的一点是贷款价值比率,或者简称LTV

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