There is somebody in that world called a basileus, who is a single individual who is understood to be superior in some way to everybody else.

那里有一种叫做巴赛勒斯的人,他被认为是一个天资比,其他人更好的人

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So, let's begin with another of those scenes on 213 that Nabokov points out to us, the Kasbeam barber. Why did it take him a month to come up with the Kasbeam barber? What's going on in this tiny snippet that's so important? So here it is.

那么，我们从213页纳博科夫向我们指出的另一个,场景开始：理发师加斯比姆，为什么他花了一个月的时间,来创造理发师加斯比姆的形象呢？这个小片段里,发生了什么重要的事情呢？我们来看这里：

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

If he hadn't run, Beatrice would still have won, but it would still have cost him the $.20 of unhappiness at Beatrice winning, but at least he would have saved himself the C of running.

如果他不参选,比阿特丽斯还是会获胜,这同样会给他带来,20美分的,比阿特丽斯获胜的失落感,但至少他节约了参选要支付的C

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Alex ended up with a payoff of -C, actually more than that, C minus the distance between him and Beatrice, so that's another $1, $.05, $.10 or even $.20 whatever it is, and he would have done better to have not run.

亚历克斯最终的收益是-C,实际上比那个还大,C减他和比阿特丽斯的距离,那是1美元,5美分,10美分或甚至20美分,不论是什么,他如果不参选能做的更好

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选