You might be winded doing it the second way, but when you get to the top and you are at the 60th story your gravitational potential is independent of how you got there.

对于走路你可能很抓狂，但你一旦到了顶层,你就是在第60层,你的重力势能,与你如何到达那里无关。

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My future plan, my record company is going to be one of the biggest independent record companies

未来的计划是让我的公司变成最大的独立唱片公司之一，

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That says that if you have independent probabilities, then the probability of two events is equal to the product of their probabilities.

意思是,几个相互独立的事件,其中两个事件同时发生的概率,等于他们分别发生的概率的乘积

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That would say, how much the stock changed is independent of its current price.

也就是说这个股价的改变量中,有多少是和当前价值无关的。

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F = ma is universally true, independent of the nature of the force acting on a body.

= ma 是一条普适定律,与作用在物体上的力的属性无关

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Ideally, life insurance is insuring people-- or fire insurance is insuring people-- against independent events, so it's not the fire of London.

理想状态下,人寿保险,或者是火灾险,承保的对象都是独立事件,伦敦大火的例子不在讨论范围

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This is a special case, though, because I've assumed that the assets are independent of each other, which isn't usually the case.

这是一个特例，因为我假设了,这个投资组合里的资产是相互独立的，但现实中通常都不是这样的。

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London insurance companies would because the whole concept of insurance is pooling of independent probabilities.

伦敦的保险公司之所以开展火险,是因为整个保险理念,就是将独立事件发生的风险汇聚起来

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The theory of insurance is that ideally an insurance company wants to insure independent events.

保险理论就是在理想状态下,保险公司为独立事件承保

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