He said rock climbing is a high risk sport in which many people overestimate their abilities and underestimate the rock.

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These are unquestionably strong words, and I think it's impossible for us to overestimate the weight of these words.

毫无疑问，这些言辞非常激烈，我觉得,怎么高估它们的分量都不过分。

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We often feel like things bleed out of us and so people will systematically overestimate the extent to which other people notice their secrets.

我们通常会觉得我们的秘密要泄露出来,所以人们心里经常会觉得,别人都发现了他们的秘密。

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Hobbes may, I think, overestimate or maybe I really should say underestimate the difficulty of the book but he returns to this again at the very end of Leviathan.

我认为霍布斯高估了自己,或者准确地说是他低估了现实的困境,所以他在《利维坦》结尾部分,再次回到了这个问题上。

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Now, it raises lots of interesting issues if a company does that and then boasts about it on the packaging or in marketing, because then people could overestimate how good those products are for them, so a lot of consumer education has to be done.

现在如果一个公司改进之后,在其包装,或市场上大肆宣扬,会引发许多争议,因为人们可能因此高估了,这些食品对其健康起到的作用,可见消费者应该对此有更多了解

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And this is actually, in general, why it's sometimes difficult to teach or to tell stories because we constantly overestimate how much other people know.

概而论之，这就是为什么有时候我们很难能讲一个故事,因为我们总是认为别人什么都猜到了。

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A lot of the demonstrations have to do with intelligence so, for example, there's actually been studies showing that people tend to overestimate the intelligence of professors.

而很多现象都跟智力有关，例如，有研究表明,人们往往会高估教授的智力。

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