It began with a study one of them did on a dolphin, who had been trained to recognize a particular high-pitched tone.
首先,他们中的一个人对海豚做了一项研究,训练它识别一种特殊的高音。
The local chamber of commerce, which represents the industry in the area, hired me as a consultant to do a one year study on fishing in the Biramichi river and write a report for them.
当地的商会代表着这个地区的工业,他们雇佣我作为顾问做一项关于比拉米奇河渔业的一年期研究,并为他们写一份报告。
One study showed, for example, that acquiring firms were on average unable to maintain acquired firms' pre-merger levels of profitability.
例如,一项研究表明,平均来看,收购公司无法维持被收购公司合并前的盈利水平。
So I'm going to leave it on that note and on Wednesday we will begin the study of one of Machiavelli's greatest and most profound disciples in the modern world, a man by the name of Thomas Hobbes.
那么我就到此为止了,星期三的时候,我们将开始研讨现代社会中,马基雅维利的一位伟大而见解深刻的门徒,他的名字叫做托马斯霍布斯。
The reason why we need positive psychology is to shift the pendulum from the 21:1 ratio that we have today: for every one study on depression or anxiety, we have 21 studies on-- sorry, for one study on happiness or wellbeing, we have 21 studies on depression and anxiety.
我们需要积极心理学是为了改变,现在的21比1这个比率:,每有一项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究,就有21项,对不起,应该是每有一项关于快乐或幸福的研究,就有21项关于抑郁或焦虑的研究。
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