It's as though I've walked across the stage like this realized, damn, it was the guy over here or rather I found the smallest element here who beat out number 2 over here so I can now put number 1 into place and recall that it didn't matte if I punted whoever was standing here 'cause they were given to me randomly anyway.

这就像是我这样走过讲台,然后才发现要找的人在那儿,或者说发现了最小的元素,那么就可以将1号放在正确的位置,而在这儿的是谁并不重要,因为他们本身就是,随机的。

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Now, that's not a huge number but, obviously, when you're hoping to beat the market by a point or two losing by 0.3% per year because of your market timing inability is a bad thing.

看起来这不是个巨大的数字,明显地,当你希望获得,高于市场水平一到两个百分点的回报率,却由于抓不住市场时机而每年亏个0.3%,就很糟糕了

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