That was a good joke on me. By jingo, I'll bet I did jump six and nine-tenths inches.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

We made a big bet against Internet stocks in 1999 and 2000 that was very profitable for the University.

999年和2000年我们大幅做空互联网股票,为学校赚得了很多利润

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I would be looking at this--at the debt areas Student: You mentioned about the U.S. dollar falling in value recently. What kind of foreign currency vehicles or trading would you recommend to kind of hedge a bet against a dollar assuming that it continues to fall?

我会考虑这方面的投资--债务市场方面的机会,学生：你刚才提到美元,最近贬值的问题，那么哪些品种的外汇金融工具,或者外汇交易在你看来可以用来,对冲美元贬值的风险,如果我们假设美元还会将继续贬值？

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

In poker, you bluff when you bet heavily on a poor hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

If I have Avogadro number of these things in a long line, you can bet it is going to be a solid.

如果在一条直线上,这些东西有阿伏伽德罗常数那么多，你肯定会说它是固体。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

I bet you could walk all dayin shoes like that and not feel a thing.

VOA: standard.other

That's not a main smile difference but my bet is that there probably is a difference.

这不是主要方面,但我打赌可能有不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Egyptian journalist George Riad says South Africa's good showing as host at the Confederations Cup earlier this year and ample infrastructure in South Africa make the country a good bet to hold an excellent tournament.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Asymmetry is not the norm in music so eight's a good bet there.

音乐中不对称结构很少见,所以说八个应该不错

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

I'll take this even a step further, even though there is no research about this, I bet you this is correct: there is no difference in our levels of wellbeing if our place of residents is by the river or in the .

我会进一步说明，虽然还没有这方面的研究，我敢和你们打赌，下面的说法是正确的：,我们的幸福水平不会有所不同,不论我们是生活在河边,还是呆在监狱。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

I mentioned this before -I think I mentioned it before -if you say, I'm going to ask you to bet on a coin toss.

我之前提到过...,应该提到过...,我邀请你与我赌硬币正反面

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

And my bet is when they chose the stickers they had a pretty good sense of why, of which ones the boys would prefer in those studies.

我猜是当研究人员选择挑选贴纸时,他们很清楚男孩们会在这些研究中,喜欢哪些贴纸

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

For example, if you ask people how much they would be willing to bet on a coin toss, they will typically bet more if they can toss the coin or they will bet more if the coin hasn't been tossed yet.

比如说,如果你问人们,他们愿意出多少钱去赌掷硬币,如果他们可以掷硬币,或在硬币还没被掷出前,他们会下更大的注

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I think, in fact, a lot of women would say something like, I put my faith in God and I think I might bring down God's wrath if I did such a thing as to bet that my husband is going to die.

其实我觉得,不少女人会这样说,我是个教徒,我觉得如果我拿我丈夫的,性命去赌博,我会遭天谴的

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