When asked what he loves most on this special day Mathew is quick to answer. "Maybe a Valentine's gift, a nice hug,kiss,a special kiss that's very profound.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

And it's possible that children kind of got overwhelmed with it, and when asked what would the mother think, who the mother would think stole the food, responded with who really stole the food.

儿童很可能无法理解这一情境,当被问及妈妈是怎么认为的,妈妈会认为是谁偷了食物,儿童会指出那些真正偷窃食物的人

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Still, when these people were asked what would happen when they would die, most of them answered, "I'm going to go to Heaven."

当被问到,他们死后会发生些什么时,大部分人都回答说,"我将会步入天堂"

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she asked when he told her what he wanted. "Missus Trotter." said Jeff, "three thousand men will seek to marry you to get your money and property.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Back in 1988, when we started this study, we asked realtors around the country, what is the hottest market in the United States?

回溯到1988年,那时我们刚开始这项研究,我们问遍了整个国家的房产中介,在美国最炙手可热的市场是哪里

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He would try to explain it this way when students asked for a top grade just for studying hard in chemistry class: What if a baseball player came to spring training and worked harder than all the others, but still could not play well.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

I think the conclusion is that Mill's theory that when a majority of people are asked what they would rather do, they will answer that they would rather engage in a higher pleasure.

我认为结论是，就穆勒的理论而言,当大多数人被问及他们的偏好时，他们都会说自己更愿意选择高级快乐。

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(When Shumlin agreed to his friend's request,Feiler asked him what piece of advice) he would give to his girls.

VOA: standard.2010.06.19

In one survey done in Chicago a few years ago, people were asked their religion and then were asked what would happen to them when they died.

几年前在芝加哥做过一个调查,询问了他们的宗教信仰,以及他们死后又会如何

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And when asked about the pain he caused his victims he responded, "What do I care? I'm not her," which is logically correct but, in a sense, inhuman.

当别人问他对受害者,造成的痛苦时，他回答时，“关我什么事？我又不是她”,从逻辑上说没错，但一点人性都没有。

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John Lintner was a professor at the harvard Business School, who, decades ago, did a survey of people who decide on dividends and asked them, what goes on in your mind and what do you think about when you decide on dividends?

约翰·林特纳是哈佛商学院的教授,数十年前,他调查了有权决定分红的人们,问他们考虑些什么,在决定分红时会考虑哪些因素

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But it's also possible that it's a Homer Simpson-like effect, where when asked to point to what he wants, he just couldn't help but point to the one he wanted.

但也有可能这是一个类似于,霍莫·辛普森的效应,当被要求指向他想要的物体时,他只是情不自禁地指向了他想要的物体

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Erik Others got a bio saying--thanks, Erik-- the speaker was rather cold and then it turned out later on when they're asked for their impressions of the speaker people are very much biased by what they first assumed.

其他人拿到的简介…谢谢，把演讲者描述成很冷淡，结果后来发现,当问及这些人对演讲者有什么印象时,人们都受到第一印象的偏向。

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You might have predicted it the other way around, the twenty dollars, "wow, well, twenty dollars, I must have enjoyed it because I got twenty dollars," but in fact, the logic here is the people with twenty dollars when asked, "What do you think of the task?" could say, "It was boring. I did it for twenty dollars."

你们猜想的结果可能跟这个相反，拿20美元的那组，”20美元，我当然很喜欢这个任务“,”因为我拿到20美元“,但事实是，当问及20美元那一组时，”你喜欢这个任务吗/“,”很无聊，我为了20美元才做的“

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