As the fat part of the bell curve of income inequality moves beyond the middle-class threshold, huge Numbers are lifted out of poverty. Yet many of them are still perilously close to the borderline.

收入不平等的正态分布曲线最大的一部分从中产阶级底线中移开，由此，大量中产阶级摆脱了贫困，尽管如此，十分靠近边界的也不在少数。

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The essential design goal was to make Amethyst absolutely familiar to VS users and easy to use with a close-to-zero learning curve.

Amethyst基本的设计目标就是让VS用户能够轻松上手，将学习曲线降到最低。

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If the last point does not match the first point, an additional curve segment is added from the last point to the first point to close the figure.

如果最后一个点不匹配第一个点，则在最后一个点和第一个点之间添加一条附加曲线段以使该图闭合。

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And we can just extrapolate in a straight line We before saw some examples where I had an algorithm to generate points, and we fit a curve to it, used the curve to predict future points and discovered it was nowhere close.

我们可以干脆用一条直线来描述它,我们之前看到在一些例子中,我用一个算法去生成一些点，然后用一条曲线对它进行拟合，然后用这条曲线来预测未来的点,最后却发现结果完全不对。

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The difference between short- and long-term rates, otherwise known as the yield curve, is close to historic highs, even though long-term rates have fallen remorselessly over recent years.

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However, I think we are close to the knee of the growth curve.

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The flows into risk-free assets by central banks and private investors has plunged returns on these assets into negative territory, and pushed investors out along the risk curve into assets that are close substitutes to risk-free assets (such as investment grade U.S. corporate bonds).

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