They're prostrate on the burning lake of this miserable new realm called hell, yet nonetheless Satan pulls himself together and begins to analyze, to theorize, his situation.

他们匍匐在这个痛苦的被叫做地狱的国度,身边是燃烧的湖水，然而撒旦还是振作了起来,开始分析思考他的处境。

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Science can be hands-on, you might be down at the lake picking up algae and studying them or something, that would be hands-on.

科学研究也是要动手的,你可能会到湖底,收集水藻并研究它们,这就是动手操作

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For me the absolutely shocking fact of this simile ] is that its primary purpose is merely to describe the number of angels who are prostrate on the burning lake of hell.

为了他们悲惨的境遇黯然神伤,对我来说，这个比喻令人震惊的事实,是它最初的目的只不过,是为了描述葬身于地狱火海的天使的数量之多。

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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

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This has been called the "Lake Wobegon effect" based on Garrison Keillor's story about a place where all the children are above average.

这个就叫“乌比冈湖效应”,名字源于Garrison，Keillor的一个故事,故事里有个地方的小孩子比一般孩子都优秀。

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