I would expect, whether you're a Red Sox fan or not, you to be able to look at a list of different pitchers and their average velocity for their fastball, and tell me who has the longest or the shortest wavelength.

无论你是否是一个红袜队球迷，我预想你会看到一系列,不同的投手和他们,投出快球的平均速度，告诉我谁有最长的,或者最短的波长。

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And even if over a period of time the average amount of their regard is lower because they started lower and then got higher than someone who was always high, it's the ones who were first lower who then went up that capture our attention.

即使在一段时间内,他们对我们的评价依然不高,但是因为起点较低,只要是在日益改善，总比一开始就对我们评价好的人更有吸引力，正是开始低而慢慢增加的人,会引起我们的注意。

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It turns out that if you look at the 2.5--sorry, the quarter million people on the movie database and compute their Bacon number, 2.8 the average Bacon number is 2.8.

结果发现，这2。5…对不起，如果你算一下电影数据库里这25万人，他们的平均Bacon数为。

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