For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

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Let's create a graph here that on the x axis it's going to be time, so time zero will be when you first take in a food and then one hour later, two hours later will be shown as you go from left to right, and then we'll have blood glucose level up on the y axis.

我们在这建立一个曲线图,X轴代表的是时间,所以零时间点是你第一次进食的时间,然后一小时以后,两小时以后,是从左到右呈现在图表上的,在Y轴上是你的血糖值

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