So, when they ask you questions about which person should be on the quiz show, people say the more competent person.

因此，当他们问你,觉得谁应该去参加这个智力竞猜节目，你们会说更有能力的人应该去。

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The competent person is rated as much more attractive, ? considerably more attractive, than the mediocre person. Okay?

大家更为有能力的人更有魅力，比那个平庸的人，吸引人得多，对吧？

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And more importantly, we like people who have the desire and ability to learn quickly.

更重要的是，有求知欲，并且有快速学习的能力。

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Do you have the sense that they are... this crop of young people coming on the scene, they are more willing and more able to do better by America by our world?

您认为他们。,这群登上历史舞台的年轻人，他们是否更愿意更有能力,让美国让世界更美好？

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The ideal audience for the book," he says "should be the preachers, the gentry, the lawyers, men of affairs, who drawing such water as they find from the book can use it," he says, "to sprinkle the same both from the pulpit and from their conversation upon the people."

他还说，像传教士，贵族，律师，当政者,这样的人就更应该读这本书，因为他们有能力,把从书中汲取的思想认识，通过礼拜或与他人的交谈,有效地传播出去“

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The effect works both ways so the mediocre become even more lowered in your esteem, in your regard.

不管怎样，有能力的人始终有魅力,平庸之人只会更让你更看不起。

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Physically attractive people are thought to be smarter, more competent, more social and nicer.

长得好看的人会被视为更聪明，更有能力，更会交际，更友善。

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Now, some of you who are very cynical and/or very good looking might wonder "yes, but good-looking people like me actually are smarter, more competent, more social and morally better."

有些持怀疑态度,同时可能又长得很好看的同学可能会想,“像我这样长得好看的人确实更聪明，更有能力，更会交际，更有道德“

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Generally, we are more attracted to people who seem competent to us.

一般而言，我们更花痴,那些有能力的人。

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Yes, we're more attracted to people who are competent than people who we think are incompetent but people who are super competent, people who seem competent on all dimensions, they're kind of threatening to us.

是的，我们更喜欢有能力的人,而非没能力的人,但是那些能力超群的人，那种全能型的人，又我们感到恐慌。

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