So now these are treasury notes.

这些是国库券。

These are the treasury notes that were here before.

这些是之前在这儿的国库券。

Congress is obligated-- we learned before that these treasury notes are obligations of the U.S. government.

国会将对此负有义务——我们之前学过这些国库券是美国政府的债务。

This refers to the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note.

这是指10年期美国国债的收益率。

And it borrows from those who offer to lend at the lowest interest rates by giving them IOUs - Treasury notes or Treasury bonds.

财政部拍卖美国国债，从愿意以最低利率提供贷款者手中借款。

So for example, if the Fed owned a 10-year Treasury note that bond would expire after, you guessed it, 10 years.

因此，例如，如果美联储拥有一张 10 年期国库券，该债券将在 10 年后到期。

While a 10-year U.S. National Treasury note has an annual yield of 2.16%, the yields on 10-year Greek government bonds reached 29% in 2012, just before the country defaulted on an almost $300 billion debt.

10年期美国国债的年收益率为2.16%，而希腊10年期国债的收益率在2012年达到29%，在希腊拖欠近3,000亿美元债务之前就达到这么高了。