But if there were a lottery and they'd all agreed to the procedure, you think that would be okay?
但如果他们抽签了,他们也都同意这一程序,那你认为就没问题,是吧?
But I think that the people who work for them need the public transportation
但我认为,那些为他们工作的人需要公共交通,
But that's a beautiful example; they thought they had taken their polis with them, because they have had moved the entire city there.
但那是个很好的例子,他们认为他们带去了他们的城邦,因为他们将整个城市都搬过去了
While they're technically private companies now, they are still thought to be related to the U.S. Government.
技术上讲,如今他们已经是私企了,但他们仍被认为与美国政府有关联
And that latter statement sounds funny, you don't think of computations having limits, but they do.
这个说法听起来挺逗,你们不会认为计算有局限性,但事实上他们有。
Right, right. It's not necessarily that the four people who chose between 46 and 67 are themselves "thick," it's that they think the rest of you are "thick."
选择46到67的人,自身并不一定愚蠢,但他们可能认为剩下的人都很蠢
Maybe they are exaggerations and I think to some degree they are but it's revealing that both of these very serious readers of Machiavelli took him to be an apostle of freedom.
也许他们过于夸张了,而且我认为,某种程度上他们确实是,但具有启迪意义的是,这两个严肃的马基雅维利的读者,都把他看作自由的传道者。
Finally though, the point that he makes is a terrific one, all of these things seem natural to us but the reason why they seem natural is not because they are in some sense necessary or logical truths.
最后,尽管,他表达得很好,所有这些对我们而言很自然,但我们认为他们自然的原因,并非他们是必要的,或是逻辑真理。
For example, you can bring people into a lab or something like that and show them food and say, well can you estimate how many calories are in this, and you actually know how many calories are in it, and you get the error.
比方说,带一些实验对象进入实验室,向他们展示一些食物并问,你们能估计这些食物含有多少卡路里吗,人们认为自己对卡路里含量心里有谱,但他们错了
So they don't think that they are going to be caught, but
所以,他们不认为抄袭会被逮到,但
And I think sometimes people think I'm staring at them, and the young wowen think I'm going to persue them, but which is not true, and the others also wonder why is he staring at me.
我想有时候人们会认为,我在盯着他们看,年轻女子认为我想追求她们,但这不是真的,而其他人也在好奇为什么他要盯着我们看。
I think this is a case where they need help, not deserve it, but I think, again, if you had a certain level of requirements to meet sustenance, you're gonna need help, like, if you don't have food or a place to live, that's a case of need.
我认为这个例子中,他们需要帮助,但并不他们是应得的,不过我认为,如果你在一定程度上需要他人救助以维持生计,你就需要别人的帮助,比如,如果你没东西吃,没地方住,这才是需要帮助。
They thought they had the system solved, but then they had a bank run last year.
他们认为已经系统性解决了挤兑问题,但去年却又出现了银行挤兑
For a driver, for instance, when I ask you to rank how good you are as a driver, what people often do is they think--they say, "I'm better than average," but what they do is they focus on one aspect of their driving.
例如,拿司机来说,当我叫人们给自己的开车技术打个分时,人们通常会认为,“我比一般人好”,但其实他们只看到了开车的一个方面。
And although some psychologists and philosophers think they've solved it, most of us are a lot more skeptical.
尽管一些心理学家和哲学家认为,他们已经解决了这个问题,但大多数仍持有怀疑的态度
Usually when people drink milk they're not thinking that they're consuming sugar but they are.
通常当人们喝牛奶时,人们不会认为他们摄取了糖类,但事实上是他们确实摄取了
You konw, the British practicing mercantilism passed navigation acts, saying what ships could carry what and so on -nothing like that in the Greek world.
例如英国以颁布《航海法》,来体现重商主义,他们认为船能带来各种各样的财富,但在希腊不是这样
I think they probably also invented a few things, but it was very,very characteristic of the Greeks to borrow from the cultures they encountered and to adapt them, to make them more useful for their own purposes and nothing could be clearer than the alphabet as an example of that.
我认为他们或许也发明过一些事物,但从他们所遇到的文明中进行借鉴,将之应用到自己的生活中去,并使它们更适于希腊人自己的目的,这样的方式也是非常希腊风格的,也没有什么,能比字母表这个例子更能清晰地说明这点了
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