We had a similar, even higher price-to-earnings ratio of about forty-six at the peak in 2000 and it corrected way down.

000年时我们的市盈率甚至更高,达到了46,后来经过修正降低了

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A much smaller peak, a much less rapid decline after the peak occurs.

一个较低的峰值,最大值出现后下降速度也较慢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Research suggests that there is a fair bit of redundancy in the brain, you can lose portions of the brain and still have a perfectly functioning, peak functioning person.

有研究显示,大脑中有些部分是没用的,即使失去大脑的某些部分,你还是可以正常生活，还是非常正常的人。

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When they're through and had reached their peak, their notion of monarchy is something fit for barbarians, but not for Greeks. A free man may not live under a monarchy, and the roots of that, I think, are visible in Homer.

当他们赢得竞争,到达权利的顶峰时,他们所谓的君主制其实更适合于异邦人,而不是希腊人,君主统治下不存在自由人,这个想法的根源可以在《荷马史诗》中找到

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We've talked about the peak experience I have spent a lot of time in New York City, and even in the small park down the way I can watch and look at a tree.

我们说过我在大峡谷,我常常去，But，we，almost…,纽约，即使在顺路的小公园里,我也可以观赏一棵树。

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The peak occurs a little bit later and then there's a less rapid decline here, and then blood sugar actually ends up a little above this initial level, and therefore you're less likely to eat because you're less hungry.

峰值出现得比较晚,下降也较为缓慢,最后血糖结束在比起始值稍高的位置,因此人就没有那么想进食 因为不感觉饿

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

A lot of us might feel that a life like this, where we peak but then we stick around-- ... you know, isn't-- can at least fail to be as desirable in which we end with a bang.

很多人可能觉得生命是这样的，我们先到达巅峰然后下跌-,不是-,它无法令人满意地,让我们突然死去。

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