One is that 2,000 calories is the average for the typical person, but, of course, people have greatly differing calorie needs.

一是2000卡路里是常人所需的平均值,当然,人们需要的热量是大大不同的

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In 1988, when there was a boom in California, but of course not in Milwaukee, the average person in Los Angeles thought home prices would go up 10% a year for the next ten years --that's the median, I'm sorry.

988年加利福尼亚出现了繁荣,当然,在密尔沃基则没有出现,洛杉矶的人们普遍都认为房屋价格,会在未来十年内以每年10%的速度,上升,应该是中间价,不好意思

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Then you'll get a page that looks like this that will talk about-- given that you've had that particular food how many additional calories you have for the day, given an average person, and it gives you the breakdown of what you've eaten so far.

之后你会看到一个类似这样的页面,根据你的某种食物摄入量,根据一般人的情况,告诉你当天额外摄入了多少卡路里,它会给出当前所有的统计数据

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But we might then wonder, for every person who gets less than the average amount of life-- suppose we take the median, take the amount of life that's exactly, 50 percent of the people get more, 50 percent of the people get less.

但是接着我们可能会想，对于所有活得比平均寿命要短的人-,假设我们取中间数，相对于平均寿命，刚好五成的人活得更长，五成的人活得更短。

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