In the normal course of events, clay dissolves and disappears, and any message on it is erased.

因为在一般的情况下,粘土会分崩离析,所有的信息将灰飞烟灭

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But typically, in the United States, they do splits to keep the price of a share somewhere in the $20 to $40 range; there's interesting literature on why they do that.

一般来说,在美国,分割旨在将每股价格,维持在20到40美元间,为什么这样做呢,有一个很有趣的理论

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As I mentioned before is one example on the risk for breast cancer in women, so you'd randomly assign half to following their usual diet, the other half to an intervention program where people are prescribed a low fact diet, given counseling and interventions from dieticians and things, and then you look to see what happens for risk as people go forward in time.

我之前提过,这例子研究的是,女性的乳腺癌发病率,你将随机选择其中一半人按一般习惯饮食,另一半人则参与一个干预计划,其中每人都要食用,由营养学家设计推荐的低脂肪菜单,然后再看随着时间推移,被试者的发病率是怎样变化的

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Then you're able to generalize that and say, if you multiply it by 2.6, I mean a vector 2.6 as long as A.

然后可以将其推广到更一般的情况,如果用2.6乘以它,所得矢量即为矢量 A 的2.6倍

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Well, now one of the things farmers in history discovered is that it's very hard to do well as a farmer if all you do is grow the crops, because people normally don't use what you grow in the form in which you grow it.

关于农民我们在历史上能够得知的一件事是,当好农民很困难,特别是只种农作物的农民,因为人们一般不会将,你从地里种出来的东西留作种子

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