So the total number of shares is almost-- the tendency to do splits is a cultural thing; it's of no real significance.

所以股票总数几乎是个,这种分割的趋势是文化使然,没有实际的意义

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You always have to get worried in history when people start talking about how human beings or human behavior is rooted in nature.

当你了解那段历史中的人们在讨论,某些人类或者人类行为是天性使然时,你会为此担忧

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Custom dictates that I say something about the subject matter of this course at its outset.

习惯使然，在这堂课开始时,我要说一些关于,这个主题的事。

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And for Milton, whose temperament up to this point inclined him obviously to hesitation, to postponement, and to merely the anticipation of profit, the pressure applied by this parable of the unprofitable servant may very well have seemed utterly unbearable.

对于弥尔顿来说，这是性格使然,他读到这里会犹豫，会止步不前，会对利益有所期待，这则寓言中毫无收益的仆人,给了他无尽的压力。

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Maybe it's a tradition, maybe it's to keep the value kind of in a familiar range or a small-- they don't want them to get too expensive because people can't-- small investors can't afford them anymore.

也许是传统使然,也许是为了将价值维持在一个惯常的小区间内,他们不想让价格升得太高,因为人们,小投资者无法承担过高价格

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They are unregulated by law; they are unregulated by authority. The state of nature is simply a kind of condition of maximum insecurity, an unregulated market with no common laws or rules to sustain it.

法律，权威使然,自然状态就是,一种最大安全感的状态,是一种没有法律规范维持的,不加管制的市场。

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That people were conceived, whether by nature or by God or even by evolution, with a certain order to them; some born to do this and some born to do that and some born to do that.

即人的等级已经被设定好了,不管是被自然还是上帝,还是进化使然,天命不可违,有人天生做这种事,有人天生做那种事等等

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