And so...what you're noticing is a fair mount of mergers and acquisitions, meaning less efficeint businesses are collapsing into biger businesses.

所以你会看到,企业间大量的,兼并，这意味着,工作效率低下的企业,会垮台，被更大的企业吞并。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In 1992, a study on literacy of United States a particular illiteracy was associated with law incompetence, with poverty, with welfare, with incarceration.

992年，一项关于美国人文化素养的研究,文化素养低下与,低下的生活水平，贫困和社会福利，以及监禁有一定关系。

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He returns us to the lowly perspective that Galileo had when he set up his telescope in that other valley, Valdarno, and it's this lowly vantage point that's beautiful in part because it's a fallen perspective, not in spite of the fact that it's a fallen perspective.

他让我们回到伽利略和他在另一个村庄,瓦尔达诺设置望远镜的较低的层面，这个低下的认为这个层面存在美感的观点,是因为这是一个堕落的观点，而不是因为堕落的事实。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In that process there is a metabolic engine at work, and some people have an efficient engine so that the calories in get banked in the fat, other people have an inefficient engine, that is the calories get wasted as body heat and things like that, and they tend not to gain weight.

这过程中人体内有个工作着的代谢引擎,有些人的代谢引擎效率很高,热量便转化为脂肪储存起来,另一些人的效率低下,能量就以体温等形式被浪费了,因此他们就不容易发胖

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