So I started off with an example that's pretty bad for this story, namely, Coke and Pepsi.

我以一个例子作为开始,一个不太恰当的例子,即,可口可乐和百事可乐

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That example I gave last time with the bicycle pump was not quite the right example.

上次我举打气筒的例子,是不太恰当的。

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Case in point: there's no semicolon here, there's no semicolon here, there's no semicolon here.

恰当的例子：这里没有分号，这里也没有分号，这里也没有。

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It's like you have more skateboards than there are days in a year.

恰当的例子是你的滑板多到,每天用一个都不重样。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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I don't think this is necessarily a case ... in which you have 99 skateboards and the government... or you have a hundred skateboards and the government is taking 99 of them.

我觉得他的例子不恰当,不是你有99个滑板，而政府。,或你有100个滑板,而政府收走99个。

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