在20世纪初，很少有东西比科学知识的承诺更吸引人的了。

In the early 20th century, few things were more appealing than the promise of scientific knowledge.

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The competent person is rated as much more attractive, ? considerably more attractive, than the mediocre person. Okay?

大家更为有能力的人更有魅力，比那个平庸的人，吸引人得多，对吧？

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And even if over a period of time the average amount of their regard is lower because they started lower and then got higher than someone who was always high, it's the ones who were first lower who then went up that capture our attention.

即使在一段时间内,他们对我们的评价依然不高,但是因为起点较低,只要是在日益改善，总比一开始就对我们评价好的人更有吸引力，正是开始低而慢慢增加的人,会引起我们的注意。

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