By comparing rings from different trees and with other historical data, you can often identify particular rings with the exact calendar year that they grew.

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

If you're comparing two portfolios with the same expected return, then you want the one with the lower variance.

比较两个有相同预期收益率的投资组合时，你会选择方差小的那一个。

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I remember with a Muslim friend of mine, we were comparing Lent to Ramadan.

我记得有一次和一个穆斯林朋友，讨论基督教的大斋期和伊斯兰教的赖买丹月。

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Some protestors carry signs comparing the Obama administration with Nazi Germany, and fringe elements still question whether the president is really a U.S.citizen, despite the fact that he has an official birth cirtificate on file with the state of Hawaii and birth announcements were printed shortly after he was born.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

So in fact, it is the case, if you look at data, and by the way, that's the way I ended up setting a lot of these parameters and playing with it, was comparing what my simulation said to historical stock data.

所以实际上，在这个例子中，如果你看到数据，顺便说一下，这就是我设置很多变量,然后编程的方式，也就是把我的仿真程序得到的结果,和历史股票数据进行比较。

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Now, it seems to me we can eliminate that a little bit by comparing it with various modern approaches to the same sorts of problems.

如今,在死亡的问题上,我们已经通过,与现代多种同类方法和问题的对比,解决一些了

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But ultimately, everyone agrees I-- that's the premise here, that for the-- if you're comparing two portfolios with the same variance, then you want the one with the higher expected return.

但归根结底大家都会同意这一点-,这是一个前提-,当你比较两个有相同方差的投资组合时，你会选择预期收益率高的那一个。

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Usually it's not. That was the point that discussed in my chapter comparing him to Houston's film The Dead. Houston's film is filled with sentimentality and nostalgia. Welles generally avoids that, the way James Joyce does.

通常并非如此，那正是我在比较,他的作品与休斯顿的电影《死魂灵》,的章节中所谈到的，休斯顿的电影,充满了多愁善感和怀旧情绪，而威尔斯通常,尽量避免那样做，那是詹姆斯·乔伊斯的方式。

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