"I do not regret it." he said. "It is better to be defeated battling for an honest idea, than to win by a cowardly trick."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

Instead, what they do is they bounce all around doing different things and gradually get better and better at it.

相反，它们来回乱窜，做各种尝试,然后逐渐对于从迷笼中逃脱变得熟练。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

What they usually do is they take the underperforming fund and they merge it with one that has a better track record.

更常见的做法是把运作不佳的基金,合并到另一只表现良好的基金中去

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

"There would be an eight-page form, and really other sites have successfully managed to make this work with one page, and that data quality is much better in one page, because it's easier to do.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

What you're much better at doing is saying how do I take the problem I've got and map it into a class of algorithms about which I know and use the efficiencies of those to try and figure out how to make it work.

当你碰到问题的时候,更好的方法是把遇到的问题映射,到已经设计好的算法中去,并用这些算法来提高效率,来保证问题得到解决。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

And some do it better than others. One measure of success is the five-year survival rate, and the lead author of a new study says that number varied dramatically among the different medical centers doing lung transplants.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

The reason I don't want to play a strictly dominated strategy is, if instead, I play the strategy that dominates it, I do better in every case.

我不选择严格劣势策略的原因是,要我选了优势策略,我在每次博弈都得到更好的收益

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

"There was a recent story about wanting to, on Valentine's Day, raid people having romantic candlelit dinners, Muslim couples having romantic candlelit,I mean, what business of it is theirs and really don't they have better things to do?

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

This is very important,which is why I am doing it: "If we want to know how fast a human being can run, then it is no use to average out the speed of a "good sample" of the population; it is far better to collect Olympic gold medal winners and see how well they can do.

这话非常重要，是我作这个研究的原因：,“如果想知道人类最快能跑多快，那从好的样本中测出平均数是“,没用的;,而应该收集田径类奥运冠军的信息,看他们能跑多快。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

So, in fact, it is true, it is in fact true, so we can conclude that 2 dominates in fact, we can do a bit better than that we can say strictly dominates 1.

事实的确如此,我们可以得出结论立场2优于立场1,或者更进一步说,立场2严格的优于立场1

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Actually, we can do it a little better than that, since we know the game is symmetric, we know that S1* is actually equal to S2*.

实际上我们能得出更多,因为我们知道这个博弈是对称的,我们知道S1*=S2

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选