Now, one of the great hopes of modern biology is that we can figure out how to reverse that process in cells.

如今,现代生物学的一个最大希望,就是希望能够,发现逆转分化过程的方法

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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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And just as last time the firms are going to try and maximize profits.

就像上次一样,公司希望最大化它们的利润

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Of course, we will also be talking about behavioral finance in this course and we'll, at times, be saying that the utility function concept isn't always right-- the idea that people are actually maximizing expected utility might not be entirely accurate.

当然 我们还会,在这门课上讨论行为金融学,并且,我们会间或,讨论到效用函数不总是正确的,人们希望最大化期望效用的观点,也许并不是完全准确的

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