This is not an x versus time plot or y versus time.
这不是 x 坐标关于时间的图像,或 y 坐标关于时间图像
Last time, we argued about the case of Queen versus Dudley and Stevens, the lifeboat case, the case of cannibalism at sea.
上节课,我们讨论了,女王诉达德利和斯蒂芬斯案,即救生艇的案例,海上食人惨案。
And fixed versus variable speaks to whether you give a reward on a fixed schedule, every fifth time, or variable, sometimes on the third time, sometimes on the seventh time, and so on.
固定与变化则是相对于,你是否根据固定时程给予奖励而言的,每五次就给予奖励,或者是变化的,有时候在第三次上给予奖励,有时候则在第七次上给予奖励。
So what I've said so far is, a particle moving in time from point to point can be represented by a graph, x versus t.
到目前为止,我说过,一个质点随时间的连续运动,可以用一幅x-t图来表示
With this basic principle of utility on hand, let's begin to test it and to examine it by turning to another case, another story, but this time, not a hypothetical story, a real life story, the case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stevens.
有了这条最基本的功利原则,让我们检验一下这条原则,是否适用于另一案例,而这一次,就不再是假定的事件了,是个真实的故事,女王诉达德利和斯蒂芬斯案。
So what we would like to do is to describe what the object does by drawing a graph of time versus space and the graph would be something like this.
然后我们要做的就是描述这个物体的运动,通过画一个"x-t"图,画出来的图就像这样
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