writer Dava Sobel tells the story about longitude and how the problem of knowing it was solved.
VOA: special.2010.07.14
There's a famous story about Irving Fisher who was a professor here at Yale who remarking on how few people understand the gold standard.
有一个著名的关于耶鲁大学教授,欧文?费雪的故事,他探到了很少人,懂得金本位的道理。
That also encouraged me to really write more and to really think about what is the story, how are people coming to this and like when I show my friends this, how are they going to react.
这也鼓励我编写更多东西,并且真正思考这个故事是什么,思考人们怎么想它,比如我向我的朋友展示的时候,他们会怎么反应。
She has read the book four times. "I think if anything, this story talks about humanity and the universality of humans and how there's goodness in people and you just have to get to know one another."
VOA: special.2010.07.08
It's also interesting that Athens has a very clear tradition of thinking they had kings, and what I think is very telling is the story they give us about how kingship came to an end in Athens.
这很有趣,雅典人有个非常鲜明的传统,认为他们有过国王,他们有个我觉得很生动的故事,描述雅典的王权是如何终结的
This brings us to the final-- the issue of expectations and how we judge people is a story that could be told about individuals but it's also a story that could be told about groups.
这让我们谈到最后一个问题-,关于期望的问题,我们如何评价他人,不仅对个人有影响,对群体也会有影响。
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