We're making people who would have been feeling sick and maybe not being able to work as much - are able to keep their jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Notice that on the modest view, if we ask ourselves, ? would it have been good to be immortal?

在保守价值容器理论的前提下，如果我们问自己，永生是否是好事？

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But if we had common knowledge of rationality in this class, then the optimal choice would have been 1.

但是如果大家都知道彼此是理性的,那么最优策略就是1

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"The banks that came closest were Citibank, Bank of America and if those had not been supported by the government, I think it might have caused a cascading crisis that would have been much worse than the one we actually had,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

And you might have kind of been projecting ahead and thinking if we keep up at this pace, pretty much we would only get to carbon by the end of the semester.

你们可能会有这种推测：,如果我们以这个速度继续下去的话，这个学期,也只能讲到碳原子。

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What I thought I would do is first give you a little bit of sense of some of the opportunities that we as a group have been exploring.

我想我先要做的是给你们,一点感觉，知道我们这个团队,是研究什么的。

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It would have been a perfect symmetry because last time we quoted Paul Ricoeur to the effect that these authors, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, were--and this is Ricoeur's word--"masters."

这里其实是很平衡的,因为上次我们提到保罗，里克尔的时候大意是说这些作者，包括马克思，尼采和弗洛伊德，按里克尔的说法，都是大师“

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These would have been these aristocratic figures who we know in the earliest days of the polis.

这些可能就是我们所知道的,早期城邦的贵族

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If we are neutralists, we're going to say, the question is, what would the contents of my life have been, for the next year, ? ten years, whatever?

如果我们是守中主义者，我们会说，问题是，我的生活内容是什么，即下一年的内容，接下来十年的内容是什么？

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Similarly,had we had somebody with Napoleon's personality in New York and nobody with the personality in Michigan, that guy would have been Napoleon, because we would have had the same personality with no branching,with no competitor.

同样地，假如在纽约出现拥有拿破仑人格的人,而在密西根没有出现，那么前者将是拿破仑，因为在相同的人格下，不存在分支和竞争者。

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In fact, the outcome here, this equilibrium here is for all intents and purposes, the same equilibrium we would have had had there been thousands of firms in the market And had this been a perfectly competitive market.

实际上,这个结果,这个均衡适用于所有的目的和意图,我们将得到同样的均衡,即使市场上有数千的公司,即使这是个完全竞争市场

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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