让我从一种你可能相对不太了解的机构说起——商业房地产。

Let me start from the kind of institution that you probably know relatively little about—commercial real estate.

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一个汽水罐大小的小东西放在书架上，这个相对无害的小玩意可能会让你的朋友远离你的住宅。

Roughly the size of a soda can, sitting on a bookshelf, a relatively harmless gadget may be turning friends away from your home.

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你知道，罗西家具公司是一家澳大利亚公司，和一些商业街上的商店相比，它的规模仍然相对比较小，但是它有向外国市场扩张的计划。

As you know, Furniture Rossi is an Australian company, still comparatively small compared to some of the high street stores, but it's got plans to expand into foreign markets.

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In the second century you can't really use the term "orthodox Christianity" versus "heretical Christianity," because there wasn't--orthodoxy hadn't been established,yet.

在主后第二世纪你不能用,和“基督教异教“相对的“东正教“,因为当时正教还没建立。

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Obviously we don't expect you to know exactly what the distances are, but you should be able to compare them relatively.

当然我们不要求你么,要能知道具体这些位置是多少，但你们要能够相对比较它们。

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The problem is even more severe when you look at something that's relatively new, like the hedge fund world.

在相对新鲜的投资领域,你会发现这个问题更加严重,比如在对冲基金领域

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