In the last five years, the stock in Dow Jones Company has fallen by half.

在过去的五年间,道琼斯公司,一流的商业财经信息提供商旗下有以对商业财经领域的深度分析报道见长的《华尔街日报》报系

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I have to say though Godiva is pretty stellar.

但是我不得不说Godiva是一流的。

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Or should I spend my time and energy trying to find the top quartile bond, top quartile real estate manager,or buyout manager, or venture capital manager?

还是说,我应该投入时间和精力,去找一流的债券经理人,一流的不动产或杠杆收购经理人,或者一流的风险投资经理人

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He is a house-servant, first-rate cook, and splendid carriage driver.

他是个仆人,一流的厨师,出色的马车夫

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So, for the next few minutes, I will give you a sense of why it is like that Mike has not achieved that fluidity, even though his peripheral vision has been restored.

因此，我会用随后的几分钟，来帮助大家理解，迈克及时在恢复间接视力之后,仍为何实现这一流度，大家都知道。

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He's a superb scientist.

他是一位一流的科学家

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Where even if you can find somebody who's going to be a first quartile manager, there's almost no difference between the first quartile return and the third quartile return.

即使你能找到一位,一流的经理人,但在债券市场收益中,第一和第三个四分位数之间几乎没有区别

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You want to spend your time and energy pursuing the most inefficiently priced asset classes because there's an enormous reward for identifying the top quartile venture capitalist and almost no reward for being in the top quartile of the high- quality bond universe.

你应该投入所有的时间和精力,去追逐最不能有效定价的资产,因为在那里才能通过一流的风投经理人,获得巨额的投资回报,而在债券市场,即使债券优质,经理人一流,回报微乎甚微

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