But the United States, which is the largest provider, "is lagging a little bit behind the curve of good practice in food aid."

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Right, I'm hoping I the grades in order, otherwise it's going to ruin my curve at the end of the year.

我希望我成绩尽量好,要不我一年的努力就白费了

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So we have the monopoly quantity here, and we have the competitive here, and in between what does this best response curve look like?

这样我们就算出了垄断产出,还有完全竞争产出,二者之间的图线是什么样的呢

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The work in this step is just the area under this curve.

而这一步过程的功,是这条曲线下面的面积。

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So the normal--the bell-shaped curve in that case for the x/n is going to look something like this.

那么x/n的钟形曲线,大概就会是这个样子

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That little J shaped curve is explained primarily by cigarette smoking because that keeps weight down in people, it also makes people sick so that their weight gets low because of that, and it explains the high rates of the disease risk there.

这个小J形曲线主要是由吸烟引起的,因为吸烟一方面能让体重降低,另一方面也引起疾病,疾病让人们的体重下降,这也解释了这里的高患病风险

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W2 So in this case, it's the amount of work is the area under that curve. And in this case here, the amount of work is bigger, w2 is bigger and it's the area under this curve.

这是路径2做的功,比W1要大，现在假设,我把这两条路径结合起来。

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People have referred to this as a J shaped curve with this little up tick in the left hand side and people--some people have sort of said, well maybe it's not so bad to be overweight because it's not so good to be underweight as well and that's a problem.

人们把这称为J形曲线,最左边有一个向上的弯钩,因此就有人说,也许超重也不一定就是一件坏事,因为体重过轻也不是什么好事,这是个问题

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