二十世纪60年代，当我还是耶鲁大学心理学系的一名研究生时，我首次开始研究人类动机的基础以及人们在遭遇挫折后如何坚持下去。

I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation—and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.

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这个问题困扰了人们多年，直到20世纪50年代，一位名叫古斯塔夫·克雷默的德国科学家给出了一些答案，并在此过程中提出了新的问题。

The question perplexed people for years, until, in the 1950s, a German scientist named Gustave Kramer provided some answers and, in the process, raised new questions.

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上世纪70年代中期，他们就犯过那样的错误，当时他们从哈佛大学招募了一名第一名的毕业生，这名毕业生恰好是一名女性，也是税务方面的奇才。

That mistake had been made in the mid-seventies when they recruited the number one grad from Harvard, who happened to be a she and a wizard at taxation.

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Well, Goodbody & Company is supposed to have your shares but they generally hold them in what's called "Street name."

古德巴迪公司应该留有你的股票,不过一般是以行号代名方式持有

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But at some point in the eighteenth century, the mask seemed informally to acquire an alternative title, Comus, and it's as Comus that all readers since have almost always referred to the mask -- and this, of course, is a mistake.

但在18世纪的某个时候，《面具》似乎还有一个不太正式的名，《Comus》,因为《Comus》，后来读者都将它代指《面具》了,当然这是一个错误。

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