Before I do that though, let me try and give you an analogy to keep this in mind of why we want to basically build these abstractions and what we need in order to have them work together.

在我们看例子之前请让我打个比方,以便你们能记住我们,为什么要建立这些抽象,以及要使它们协调工作,我们需要做些什么。

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They're trying to lay out an argument which is consistent and continuous and keep surprise to a minimum.

他们试图自然地建立起一个论点,使之一致，使我们的诧异最小化。

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So one thing that seems odd about the way we set up this model is that the voters are not evenly distributed.

有一点使我们建立此模型的假设很牵强,即是选民们不是均匀分布的

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What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

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The barriers to unity presented by European geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire, eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas.

由于欧洲独特的地理条件,和当时有限的科技水平,使未来的征伐者很难建立一个广袤的帝国,清除异己和使他的意志,传播到广袤领地的每一个角落

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