"I know some people will regard that as peculiar for a digital device but it is, it's more like an album launch or a film premiere because the device is not just something for nerds, it has a cultural meaning too."

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Well, the Fed is like that now, but what Paulson and Nason wanted to do is make it more than a banker's bank.

联邦政府现在就像英国银行一样，但是鲍尔森和内森想做的,远远不止中央银行那么点。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I like" is a pattern that's used when you feel good about something, when you want more of it.

当你对某物颇有好感而希望能获得更多时，你可以使用 “I like”句型。

I like课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

He wants his novel to be like that living butterfly, but the threat is always that it will be more like the aquamarine. And I want to suggest to you that the aquamarine has an even darker personal significance to him.

他希望他的小说就像蝴蝶那样鲜活，然而它却总是,倾向于像海蓝宝石，我希望你们注意到,海蓝宝石对于他个人而言还有更加阴暗的意义。

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I think in some ways my hope is, maybe it's more just my optimistic spirit, my hope would be that Muslims would feel like this is the place where they could really thrive within their Muslim identity, and yet be part of the American dream.

我的希望是，这也许只是我的一厢情愿,穆斯林人民能觉得这片土地才是,穆斯林民族保持传统,繁荣昌盛的地方，但仍然是美国梦的一部分。

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I think what's happening is that we're becoming more national and Milwaukeeans are starting to think more like Angelinos that it's one boom so they start to expect it to happen in Milwaukee.

我认为这是由于,随着市场的全国化,密尔沃基人的想法向洛杉矶人看齐,这是一个繁荣期,密尔沃基希望他们也会迎来楼市春天

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Now the people in this poll were asked the same question and here's what they said, so 75% said that one reason is that it's more convenient, it's what people like to eat, it's heavily advertised, it's more affordable, people may not know which foods are healthy.

在这个调查中人们也被问到了这个问题,我们来看看他们的答案,75%的人说选择垃圾食品是因为更方便,合乎口味,广告的大力宣传,更便宜,人们可能并不知道哪些食物才是健康的

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