He anticipated this power much as his father, a reasonably well-to-do banker, might have anticipated long-term earnings from a particularly risky business venture.

他预测到他的力量，正如他的父亲，一个相当富有的银行家，能够预测到从一笔风险高的生意中,能获得多少长期利益一样。

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In this case, to optimize for the best of the whole community and the whole user base and over the long term and that's important too, your long over short term.

在这个前提下,去寻求整个社会,以及所有用户的长远利益的最大化,这十分重要，我们寻求长期利益，而非眼前利益。

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Now we've been charting for a couple of weeks now Milton's long-standing project to purge his lips of secular interests and to cleanse his literary consciousness of the tempting influence of secular literary voices, and one of those voices is obviously Shakespeare's.

现在我们已经讨论了几个星期了,弥尔顿长期坚持的项目像净化世俗利益,净化世俗的文学看法的影响,对他文学意识诱惑，其中有一个看法显然是莎士比亚的。

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