For example,to have--to give the impression of being provincial with-- like you just arrived at the train from Brittany in Gare Montparnasse, and you're just so totally out of it and then that's all you want to do, and you're sort of clueless.

例如,里面描述了乡下人的行为,就像你刚到了布列塔尼的蒙帕纳斯火车站,你一无所知,你当时却饥肠辘辘想急于充饥,简直就像丈二和尚

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When you look at a random walk you have the intuitive impression that you can extrapolate it -that it doesn't look like -you can't believe it's really random, but the reason you can't is because you overweigh the probability of certain things that caught your attention.

当人们观察随机漫步序列时会有直观印象,并可以以此类推,虽然这看起来并不像...,人们不会觉得这是完全随机的,之所以如此,是因为,人们过分高估了特定事物发生的可能性,这吸引了人们的注意

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I studied the Paulson proposal carefully, since I'm writing a New York Times column about it which will appear Sunday Reading the various commentaries about the proposal I had the impression that not many of them are very--thinking very deeply about it.

在我写这个星期天将发行的,纽约时报的金融专栏之前,我曾认真研读了鲍尔森的改革计划,在我读过各种各样关于改革计划的评论之后,我深深地感觉到不是每一个人,都能深刻的意识到改革的利弊的。

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