So they were quite amused that it was a woman that was speaking to them and telling them about how hard life was, doing that kind of work.

而之后却惊奇地发现,跟他们交谈的是个女人,这让孩子们感到很有趣，也就对这些工作越来越感兴趣。

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But I found that in the Upper West Side there were a lot of families with young kids and with older kids,

但是我却发现上西区有众多家庭都有许多大大小小的孩子，

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And we can just extrapolate in a straight line We before saw some examples where I had an algorithm to generate points, and we fit a curve to it, used the curve to predict future points and discovered it was nowhere close.

我们可以干脆用一条直线来描述它,我们之前看到在一些例子中,我用一个算法去生成一些点，然后用一条曲线对它进行拟合，然后用这条曲线来预测未来的点,最后却发现结果完全不对。

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The finding, which is not a subtle finding, is that liking goes up in the three group and liking goes down in the ten group.

虽然此研究的发现并不精确，但它却表明,在列举三个特征的组里,喜爱程度有所提高,而在列举十个特征的组里,喜爱程度有所下降。

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Where you've got a couple of wishes and you aren't careful about how exactly you state the wish And so you get what you want ? but it ends up being a nightmare,right?

给你几个可以实现的愿望,但是不小心没说对愿望,你得到了自己想要的,却发现那是个噩梦对不对？

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We all know people who we thought to be our friends but we found out that they were talking behind our backs, or that they were operating to deceive us in some way or another.

我们都知道,原认为是朋友的人,却被发现,在我们背后讲坏话，或是想要,以任何方式欺骗我们之类的事情。

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No idea why he wanted to study saliva, but he then discovered something.

他研究唾液分泌的初衷我们不得而知，但他却因为这个研究而有所发现。

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Adele Diamond who studies this finds that although kids reach for A, they look for B, as if they know it's there but they can't stop themselves from reaching.

阿黛勒·黛蒙德对此进行了研究,他发现尽管婴儿会将手伸向A处,但会却注视着B处,就好像他们知道物体的位置,但却无法阻止自己的手伸向原处

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