He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

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Now we may assume, having read only that much of the simile, that Satan's spear is as tall as the mast of the ship, not a small spear.

简单的读了一下这个比喻，我们可能猜想，撒旦的长矛如同兵舰的桅杆一样高。

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And they end this paper with the following quote: "It may be that trying to be happier is as futile as trying to be taller " and is therefore counterproductive."

论文用以下这句话作结尾：,“想变得更快乐,和想变高一样徒劳,只会适得其反“

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You will always get a higher payoff from choosing 67, at least as high and sometimes higher, than the payoff you would have got, had you chosen 80, no matter what else happened in the room.

选择67的话你总会获得较好的收益,至少也是跟选80的收益一样高,有时候比选80的收益更高,不管别人选择的是什么样的策略

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