If they have an underperforming fund, sometimes they allow it to die a dignified death; although, that doesn't happen very often.

如果他们旗下有一支表现不佳的基金,他们可能会让基金退市,当然这种情况不常发生

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but the friend does not look like he is in a good mood. In fact, he had many drinks and he's crying.

但你的朋友看起来情绪不佳。事实上，他喝了很多，并且在掉眼泪。

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What they usually do is they take the underperforming fund and they merge it with one that has a better track record.

更常见的做法是把运作不佳的基金,合并到另一只表现良好的基金中去

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They haven't been performing well in their sport.

他们在自己的项目上表现不佳。

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Traditionally, they used to teach people relaxation exercises but that proves too difficult.

这些方法通常被用来帮助人们做放松练习,但效果不佳。

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Similarly,I believe that if we wish to prevent drug abuse in teenagers who grow up in a neighborhood that puts them at risk, the effective prevention is not remedial.

同样，如果我们要防止,青少年受不良的社会环境影响,而滥用药物的情况，但预防的效果不佳。

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All of a sudden the underperforming fund's record disappears and the assets are in a fund that has a better record -a record that you can actually market.

于是运作不佳的基金消失了,改头换面以优异基金的形式出现,其优良的记录可以用来做基金销售的依据

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Then when we look at the statistics, all we see are a lot of assets in the fund that performed well and the underperforming fund that was merged out of existence isn't there anymore.

于是当我们去查阅统计资料时,只能看到资产规模巨大且运作良好的基金,那些运作不佳的基金,随着合并与它的纪录一起消失了

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