I don't know where any one of them is, but I can tell you on average where any one of them is likely to be.

我不知道它们中单独的个体在哪，但我可以大体告诉你,它们其中一个将是会怎样。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

For a couple of reasons. In some ways, this would be nicer, do expected cases, it's going to tell you on average how much you expect to take, but it tends to be hard to compute, because to compute that, you have to know a distribution on input.

关注最快的情况，在某种意义上来说，因为一些原因这样想挺不错的，当我们处理一个给定的问题,计算平均时间的时候,是很难计算的，因为你并不知道输入的分布情况,这些输入会是怎么样的呢？

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Optimistic people, and again, not Pollyannaish detached optimism, but grounded optimists, on average, live significantly longer.

乐观的人，不是指盲目的乐天派，而是脚踏实地的乐观主义者，平均而言，明显更加长寿。

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Half of you did above average on the Midterm; half of you did below average on the Midterm, but if I went up and asked each of you why the answers would not be symmetrical.

你们当中有一半人期中考得比平均分高;,有一半期中考得比平均分低，但如果我去问你们为什么,答案会各有不同呢。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

One person might be a little low one day, another person might be high, a lot of people might-- you might happen to have captured them on an average day, but overall it averages out, so you get a representative sample.

一个人可能某一天少吃些,另一个人可能多吃些,很多人都会这样,你可能正好得出人们,平均每天的摄入量,但把它的整体平均一下,就得到有代表性的结果

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This is incredibly important because,when you look at this number that we started out with,saying the benchmark was 9.9 but net of fees the managers on average only lost thirty basis points--or .3% -you'd say,well that's a game I don't mind playing.

这极其重要,因为当你看这些数字时,刚才说过基准收益是9.9%,但是主动管理型基金经理人的平均净利润,只落后了30个基点或者说0.3%,你可能会说这个游戏,我不介意玩一玩

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The mediocre person answers only 30% of the questions correctly admits that he has only average grades he worked on the yearbook as a proofreader and he tried out for the track team but didn't make it.

后者回答正确30%的问题,坦白学习成绩一般,给年刊做校对,尝试参加校田径运动队，但没成功。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

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。

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