Sinking fund bonds

sinking

n. 沉没, 降低, 衰颓感\\n[法] 偿还债务

fund [fʌnd]

n. 基金;储备;现款;特别基金管理机构; vt. 积存;为…提供资金;提供资金偿付（债款等）的本息;把（短期借款）转为有固定利息的长期借款;

fund基础,创办事业的基础 →底子,本钱 → 基金

bonds

n. 镣铐, 监禁

You can't do that! it's against the rules.

你不能那么做！ 那是违反规定的。

It doesn't make any sense!

毫无意义！

We can perhaps forgive those who said the moons of Jupiter were produced by Galileo's spyglass if we recall that in his day, as for centuries before, curved glass was the popular contrivance for producing not truth but illusion, untruth;

如果我们回想一下伽利略之前几个世纪期间，曲面镜一直是一种用于产生幻影而不是产生真象的把戏装置，那么我们就会原谅那些当时把伽利略观察到的木星卫生说成是伽利略用他的小望远镜变出来的人们，