即使没有统计成绩的曲线图表，作弊也会“毒害”课堂，其他人可能会感到竞争压力过大而加入作弊的行列。

Even if there is no curve, cheating "poisons" the classroom, and others may feel pressured to join in.

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在花费足够达成满足之后，事业和生活上的杂乱无章、压力和竞争等糟糕的状况将会使曲线向下弯曲。

Beyond Enough, the curve dives downward into clutter, stress, competition and an array of other sorry outcomes。

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原因很简单：1如果你不愿意牺牲时间付出努力，你的学习曲线learning curve弧度陡峭，如何在这个竞争激烈的领域脱颖而出？

The reasons are very simple: 1 how can you excel in this intensive business if you are not willing to commit time and effort to learn when your learning curve is the steepest?

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And we did a third thing, which we tried to match this up to the economic intuition about monopoly, and perfect competition, and demand curves, and so on.

我们使用的第三个方法,我们尝试将它和,经济直觉联系起来,如垄断,完全竞争和需求曲线等等

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