For example, I don't have more space to write, if this is time and this is earnings-- if your earnings were,say, flat and suddenly increased like that, they wouldn't believe this increase at first, so the board would decide to adjust only, say, half way up.

例如,没地方写了,横轴是时间,纵轴是收益,如果你的收益,一直平稳,突然间提高,他们刚开始不敢相信这种增长,董事们决定只小幅增加,如增到一半

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And then we're going to try a demo to see if we can convince ourselves that the kind of calculations we make work out perfectly, and we'll do a test up here about half way through class.

然后我们将会尝试演示去看看,是否可以确信我们能够很好的,做出这个类型的计算，我们将在课程中做一个测试。

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We take the right half of Johns' brain, put it into Smith's torsel, hook up all the wires the right way, ? the thing wakes up, who is it?

把约翰斯的右半脑，放进史密斯的躯干，按原样连接各个部位，醒来的是谁？

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