I don't know where any one of them is, but I can tell you on average where any one of them is likely to be.

我不知道它们中单独的个体在哪，但我可以大体告诉你,它们其中一个将是会怎样。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

PROFESSOR: Great question. So the question is, how do you choose an algorithm, why would I choose to use a pseudo-polynomial algorithm when I don't know how big the solution is likely to be, I think that's one way to think about it.

教授：问得好，所以问题是，你怎样选择算法，为什么当我,不知道解决方案会有多大的时候,我要选伪多项式算法呢，我想这是一种思考问题的方式。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

When there are studies which ask people who is more likely to be a lawyer, someone who's Jewish or someone who is Hispanic, who is likely to be taller, somebody from Japan or somebody from Sweden, people can answer these things.

在一些实验里，有人问别人,什么样的人更有可能成为律师，犹太人或者西班牙裔，什么样的人会长得更高，日本人，或者瑞典人，人们会给出这样的答案。

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The Hobbesian citizen is not likely to be a risk taker, like a George Washington or an Andrew Carnegie.

可以这样说,霍布斯笔下的公民是不可能做冒险家的,就像乔治·华盛顿和安德鲁·卡内基一样。

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So my feeling is if we are in downturn it's quite likely to be mild like the last two.

所以我感觉，若要说我们正处于经济衰退,那也很可能和那两次一样轻微。

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There has to be a sense, moving from sentence to sentence, that something is likely to happen next.

必须有一种感觉，从一句话到另一句话，认为接下来会发生什么。

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And what that means, of course, is you won't do as well at the beginning as you're likely to be doing toward the end.

当然，这也就是说，你们刚开始时做的不会太好,我们期望你们在最后会更好一些。

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You might say the probability that you toss a coin and it comes up heads is a half, because it's equally likely to be heads and tails.

如果你抛一枚硬币,正面向上的概率一定是50%,因为正反哪一面向上的可能性是相同的

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They are engaged in raising livestock, which in Greece is more likely to be sheep and goats than cattle, but also breeding horses, which is very important for the aristocracy for carrying on warfare.

他们擅长豢养牲畜,在当地似乎养绵羊和山羊比牛要来的容易,但是他们同样养马,这对于贵族阶层发动战争很重要

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Soon when we're talking about multi-electron atoms, and I just want to introduce it here, that it is sort of opposing ideas that even though the s is the biggest and it's most likely that the electron's going to be furthest away from the nucleus, that's also the orbital in which the electron can, in fact, penetrate closest.

当我们说多电子原子时，我这里要先介绍一下，这些概念有些相反,虽然ｓ轨道最大,所以电子最可能远离原子核，但它上面的最容易，穿透到离原子核最近。

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That there's a lurking variable which is just that people are more likely to be born in June.

人们的研究对象之中有一个隐藏变量,那就是大多数人都是在六月出生的。

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The good news is the elements in any one spot in a hash table are likely to be a small number, three, four, five.

好的一点是在哈希表中,任何一个存贮点上的元素数据是很小的,三个，四个，五个。

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And that is not likely to be the case if it's the person who is nearby. Right?

这和我们说的,近距离产生爱情不是一回事儿？

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All right. Second question: or maybe a better way of saying this, and the general format you're likely to see here is, a test involving a variable name, which must be initialized outside of the loop, and which interior to the loop gets changed, so that the test is going to change.

好，第二个问题：,换种更好的方式来说吧，你们通常喜欢的,方式是，这个测试涉及到一个变量名字，变量在循环外已经被初始化，然后循环内部会改变这个变量的值，因此测试结果会改变。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

For example, in the late 1990s, if you were to ask a question--I'm hypothesizing -how likely is it that the Dow will be over 10,000 by the year 2008?

例如,在90年代末,假如有人问你这样一个问题,道指在2008年底前,突破万点大关的可能性有多大

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Is not any so-called list of great thinkers ? or great texts likely to be simply arbitrary and tell us more about what such a ! list excludes than what it includes?

这种所谓的伟大思想家,或巨著清单不会太过于武断吗,它告诉我们的应是,遗漏多于涵蕴吧？

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