When you're quadrupling in size in terms of people, there's always a tendency.

当公司需要将员工规模扩大为四倍时，许多公司会降低标准，但马克不会心慈手软。

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Recall you get less of an effect if you have to touch the guy but distance makes it easier for you to kill him.

刚才讲过如果你要碰被电击者，可能性就降低,但隔着距离，你就更容易下手。

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Stays a gas, but now the pressure is less, the temperature is less.

它仍然是气态但现在压强变小了，温度降低了。

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Slightly happy if you lower your levels of expectations, but not in the long term.

降低期望水平会略微快乐些，但从长远来说行不通。

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Oil, bonds, and stocks are all independent-- somewhat independent--they're not perfectly independent, but they're somewhat independent and, to the extent that they are, it lowers the variance.

石油，债券和股票都是互相独立-,一定程度上独立，不是绝对的独立，但一定程度上独立，可以使方差值变小，降低风险。

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It probably lowers HDL but I'll have to go back and check that.

它可能降低了高密度脂蛋白,但我要回去查一查

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Of course it's lowering your share of the company, but offsetting this is that the company is taking in money from the person who bought the shares and so it doesn't dilute you.

当然这会降低你对公司的控股,但补偿是公司增大了股本,因为人们购买股份,不会摊薄你的那份

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