Hundreds of electric utility companies are trying to burnish their green credentials by offering customers the option of supporting alternative energy.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

But still, he considers justice grounded on utility to be what he calls "the chief part and incomparably, the most sacred and binding part of all morality."

但是他依然把基于功利的公正称为,所有道德的主体,最无与伦比，最神圣，最有约束力的部分“

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And what it involves is placing a value, usually a dollar value, to stand for utility on the costs and the benefits of various proposals.

其做法包括，作出估价，通常是估计出金额，来代表功利,即分别列出成本，和各项收益的金额。

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And not only that, the utility must agree to a long-term contract that covers power generation costs, plus a decent profit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

What finance theory is based on-- and much of economics is based on-- the idea that people want to maximize the expected utility of their wealth.

金融学理论建立在,并且很多经济学的都是建立在,人们希望能使自己对,财富的期望效用最大化这一基础上

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Dave Warren of the Washington Public Utility District Association notes electricity demand fell during the recession and may stay down, thanks to conservation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

With a lot of morally intuitive appeal, Bentham's idea is the following, the right thing to do; the just thing to do is to maximize utility.

充满了道德上的直观感染力，其观点如下，正确的选择，公正的选择,就是最大化功利。

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Authorities arrested a Pakistan-born U.S.citizen, Faisal Shahzad, two days after an explosive device inside a sports utility vehicle failed to detonate in Times Square on May 1.

VOA: standard.2010.05.14

Bentham says we have to consider the welfare, the utility, the happiness of everybody.

边沁说我们必须得考虑,大众的福祉，功利，大家的幸福。

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The dairyman sells his excess power to the local electric utility.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

To calculate the expected utility of your wealth, you might also have to look at the expected return, or the geometric expected return, or the standard deviation.

要计算你财富的期望效用,你也许还要研究预期收益曲线,或几何预期收益率,或是标准差

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According to Mexican authorities the second victim was also in a white sport utility vehicle and since the gunmen were not sure which one was Redelf's car, they decided to kill the occupants of both vehicles.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Whether to gamble, based on efficient-- based on expected utility theory.

例如赌博,你们是注重效率呢,还是注重预期效用

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He estimates rates in his home state could go up by as little as 0.03 percent to as much as 15 percent, depending on how many customers a utility company has to spread the costs across.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

One has to do with whether utilitarianism adequately respects individual rights or minority rights, and the other has to do with the whole idea of aggregating utility or preferences or values.

一点是关于，功利主义,是否充分尊重个体和少数的权利，另一点是关于,加总功利，或偏好，或价值的看法。

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That's what it means to maximize utility.

这就是所谓功利最大化。

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The exact shape of the curve is subject to discussion, but the point of diminishing marginal utility is that, as you get more and more money, the increment in utility for each extra dollar diminishes.

这条曲线的确切形状还有待讨论,但是边际效用递减规律的重点在于,你得到的钱越多,每额外的一美元的增长效用会相对减小

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Well, I think that if the great majority of people try to derive maximum utility out of a service, like using cell phones and the convenience that cell phones provide, that sacrifice is necessary for satisfaction to occur.

我觉得如果绝大多数人想要,从某项服务中获得最大功利，比如使用手机，享受手机所带来的便利，那么为了满足需求，这种牺牲就是必要的。

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With this basic principle of utility on hand, let's begin to test it and to examine it by turning to another case, another story, but this time, not a hypothetical story, a real life story, the case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stevens.

有了这条最基本的功利原则，让我们检验一下这条原则,是否适用于另一案例，而这一次，就不再是假定的事件了，是个真实的故事，女王诉达德利和斯蒂芬斯案。

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