I want to talk about Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory, which is a very important and a little technical-- psychologists can become mathematical and technical as well.

我会谈到,卡尼曼和特维斯基的前景理论,这是很重要的理论,同时需要一定的数学计算,心理学家也可以精于计算,和擅用技巧

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I like Thai food just fine, but the prospect of having Thai food day after day after day-- for thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years no longer seems an attractive proposal.

我也喜欢泰国菜，但是想到日复一日-,吃上几十亿年,看似不再是美妙提议。

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The people who are in the know -know who's trustworthy as a borrower and who has a good prospect of paying it back -but if I go in there ignorantly, I'm going to get stuck with the worst stuff.

那些行家老手们,就知道哪些借款人是可信的,钱借给谁还款的把握比较大,但如果我懵然不知就把钱投进去了,就可能会落得个血本无归的结果

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Yet even there, when I imagine an eternity of thinking about math--or for that matter, an eternity of thinking about philosophy, which I obviously like even more than math-- the prospect seems an unattractive one.

即使如此，当我想到让我永远,思考数学问题，或者说，让我永远思考哲学问题，显然和数学相比，我更钟情于它-,但这个提议也变得无趣。

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And the same way that I indicated previously that although I like chocolate-- I love chocolate--the prospect of having to eat more and more and more and more and more chocolate, eventually the idea becomes a sickening one.

同样适用于我之前的说明,虽然我喜欢巧克力-,我钟爱巧克力，但一想到要吃,更多更多更多的巧克力，最终这个念头变得让人反胃。

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