The defenses had to do with necessity, their dire circumstance, and, implicitly at least, the idea that numbers matter.

有人说他们在那样的处境下，不得已而为之，并且暗含了“人数重要“的理念。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

One thing that does matter to our base level of wellbeing which is external circumstance is democracy versus oppression.

对基础幸福水平很重要的一样东西,它是一个外在因素，那就是民主和压迫。

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You might say that optimists are people who think that for everybody in every case, in every circumstance, the total is always positive.

乐观主义者认为,任何人在任何情况下，在任何环境里，等式结果永远是正数。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

It's a tragic circumstance but better to kill one so that five can live, is that the reason most of you had, those of you who would turn? Yes?

虽然是悲剧,但牺牲一人保全五人依然是更正确的选择，这就是大多数人选择把电车开上侧轨的理由吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

We have no right to put you in a circumstance where you believe you killed somebody and then tell you it was just pretend-- we just made you kill somebody.

但我们没权把别人置于这种境地,让他们以为自己杀了人,然后又告诉他们，那个人只是装死的-,我们叫你杀了人。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So you just say,okay fine, this is the macro circumstance that we're dealing with and we're going to do absolutely the best job we can identifying individual,specific,bottom-up opportunities to deploy the funds.

于是你只能说,好吧,这就是我们要应对的宏观环境,我们绝对要全力以赴,发掘独特,明确,由下而上的机会,来配置基金进行投资

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Good, so even if everyone in the number-- everyone in the room didn't choose randomly but they all chose a 100, a very unlikely circumstance, but even if everyone had chosen 100, the highest, the average, sorry, the highest two-thirds of the average could possibly be is 66 2/3, hence 67 would be a pretty good choice in that case.

好的,如果每个人,教室里的每个人不是随机选择数字,而是全选了100,这好像不太可能,但如果每个人真的都选了100,就是最大的书,那平均数,抱歉,平均数的2/3会是66又2/3,此情况下67应该是个不错的选项

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

But again, these are the extreme circumstance that do make a difference, such as I said, a homeless person, of course, income will make a difference to that person.

这些是能产生区别的,极端情况，比如我举的无家可归者的例子，收入当然会改善他的境遇。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Against that, I suppose, you've got pessimists-- pessimists who say, " "No, no. Although life perhaps has some good things, " the overall grand balance " is negative for everybody in every circumstance.

与之相反还有悲观主义者-,悲观主义者会说，“不，也许生活有些美好的事情，“但总体的结果,“在任何情况下对任何人都是负数。

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