Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

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If you put it too soon, you might stick around for longer than that, and then the peak has come too soon.

如果你太早到达巅峰，你可能会有很长的下跌时期，这样的话巅峰来得太早了。

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So even if, on average, the stock is expected to not move at all from where it starts, some stocks will be expected to just trundle along without much change, not very volatile.

所以即使平均而言，股票应该是不会,和开盘的时候有什么区别，有一些股票可能会,没什么变化，不是很反复无常。

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Now we might agree that this's a reasonable enough fantasy of female invulnerability but of course there is nothing in our sad experience with sexual menace that actually bears the theory behind this fantasy out.

现在我们可能会同意,这里有个很合理的幻想，即女性不会受到伤害,但当然，在这个幻想背后，性骚扰的遭受,使没有东西支持这个理论。

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They are borrowers that are thought, by the various models, to be likely to fail to pay on their mortgage and to have to be foreclosed; often low income, but also they're people with poor credit histories.

通过一些模型的计算,这些借款人,很有可能无法偿付贷款,抵押房产会被贷款人收回,借款人通常属于低收入人群,而且这些人没有很好的信用记录

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

So in this game if you just played it, it's quite likely you're going to end up uncoordinated, but if you have a little bit of leadership can say okay let's make sure this is where we coordinate, or let's make sure this is where we coordinate.

如果你们真的进行这个博弈的话,很可能就会协调失败,可是如果你有一点领导力的话,你可以说我们合作达成这个结果吧,或者我们达成这个结果也行

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