It was getting better as I got deeper in to Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer.

我吃得越来越好了，因为越往爱荷华州走，那里的派就越大，冰激凌也越多奶油。

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The more positive the number, the better your life.

正的数值越大，你的生命越好。

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So, we should use that, but people in finance resist using that because it's a lower number and when you're advertising your return you want to make it look as big as possible.

所以我们应该用这个指标,但金融界反感使用几何平均,因为它比其他平均数都来得小,他们为自己的收益率做广告时,当然希望数字越大越好

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