You feel desperate because you know that if you crash into these five workers, they will all die.

你此时极度绝望,因为你深知,如果电车撞向那五名工人，他们全都会死。

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Now you keep on trying and because the reinforcement is intermittent you don't expect it as much and so your behavior will persist across often a huge amount of time.

你会不停的尝试,因为此时的强化是间隔强化,你并不会抱有很高的期望,因此，你的行为,通常会持续相当长的一段时间。

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That's because, at the end, if- -suppose you're one month or two months away from the payoff of the mortgage, you don't have any balance left, so the interest that you're paying is -hardly any balance left--is very low and so you're payment is paying off principal, mostly.

这是因为,在最后,如果,假设你还剩1到2个月,就可以还清抵押贷款,那么剩下的贷款余额就很少了,因此你所需要付的利息,将会非常少,因为贷款余额几乎为零,此时你偿还的就主要是本金

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If I had a competition where I'd give $100,000 to the person who looks the most as if they are in pain, it is a very good tactic to take a pen and jam it into your groin because you will look extremely persuasively as if you are in pain.

如果我在这里举行一个竞赛,谁最能将痛苦表演的和真的一样,谁就能拿到10万美元，那么最好用的一招莫过于拿根笔,狠狠地戳进你的腹股沟,因为此时的你看上去真的,足以使他人相信你非常痛苦。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选