Other people are optimists: they always look on the bright side.

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There's one, it's a book by Dimson, Marsh, & Staunton that--called Triumph of the Optimists-- that Jeremy Siegel quotes.

蒂姆森,马什和斯汤顿联合撰写的书,叫做《投资收益百年史》,杰里米·西格尔从中摘引了部分数据

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And in between the optimists on the one hand and the pessimists on the other, you've got moderates who say, " "It varies.

而在乐观主义者,与悲观主义者之间，还有折中主义者认为，“这要看情况。

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On the one hand, the optimists might say, "Even when we throw in the extra interaction effects, even the negative interaction effects, the overall nature of the human condition is positive.

一方面，乐观主义者可能说，“就算我们把另外的相互影响，就算把负面的相互影响算进去，人类处境的总体本质还是积极的。

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That's what the optimists might say.

那是乐观主义者的说法。

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You might say that optimists are people who think that for everybody in every case, in every circumstance, the total is always positive.

乐观主义者认为,任何人在任何情况下，在任何环境里，等式结果永远是正数。

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we now have a return of the division between moderates, optimists and pessimists.

现在我们有了温和主义者，乐观主义者和悲观主义者之分。

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