It's one of the paradoxes I enjoy in my brain that I think in all probability there is life on other planets, while at the same time being more than happy to mock anyone who claims to have met it.

我一方面认为多半在其他星球上存在生命，另一方面更加乐于嘲笑那些声称碰到过外星生物的人，这是我脑中的矛盾想法之一。

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"In a few months, my dear Marianne." said she, "Elinor will, in all probability be settled for life."

“亲爱的玛丽安，”她说，“再过几个月，埃丽诺十有八九要定下终身大事了。”

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What Zelizer reported was that some life insurance companies surmounted this problem by changing the pitch, by telling their salespeople, don't try to explain probability theory to these people.

泽利泽发现有些寿险公司，通过改变营销思路克服了这个难题，他们告诉自己的推销员，不要试图给你的客户讲概率论。

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The real insurance industry, as I mentioned before, began in the 1600s with the invention of probability theory and with the invention of life tables for-- the invention of actuarial science; but, it grew slowly.

正如我刚才所提到的,真正的保险始于17世纪,这得益于概率论,寿命表以及,精算学的产生,但是,它的发展很缓慢

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Pro-life activists must unhappily confront the probability that many of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 - while all professedly pro-life - in reality neither care very much nor think very much about the abortion issue.

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One of the challenges with this style of study is that it is difficult to account for every aspect of life which might affect the probability of developing autism, such as family history.

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"Statistics prove that there is a much greater probability of individuals continuing to exercise throughout their life if they start at an early age, " she said.

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