They'll say, I usually play for more money and it's hard to concentrate or I'm just screwing around.

他们会说，我玩扑克常常是为了赢更多的钱,但是却难以集中注意力,或者我只是随便玩玩罢了。

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so all our props are going to be made out of playing cards

所以，我们的道具都要用扑克牌做，

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I mean, one thing--I play a fair amount of I play a little bit of poker and I'm very interested in the game.

举个例子说，有一件事情-我自己也玩的很多,我会玩一点扑克,而且我对这个游戏非常感兴趣。

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So for instance, institutions like mental institutions and some prisons have installed token economies where there's rewards for good behavior, often poker chips of a sort.

比如像精神病院和监狱这样的机构,都引入了代币法,来奖励良好行为，这些代币通常是扑克筹码一类的东西。

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Indeed. The rumor has it that there were poker games that my dad lost a lot of money to professor Katz.

是的，据说人们还在那里打扑克,我爸就输给Katz教授很多钱。

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and I have to create a few crowns with playing cards,

我们必须用扑克牌做一些皇冠，

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typically, if you play poker in a card room or a casino, I would say nine times out of ten somebody sitting at the table will tell you that they're not trying; it almost always happens.

通常，如果你在棋牌室或者赌场玩扑克，十有八九，我敢说坐在牌桌上的某个人,会告诉你他们并没有在努力去赢；,这几乎总会发生。

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And through this way behaviorists have developed token economies where they get nonhuman animals to do interesting things for seemingly arbitrary rewards like poker chips.

通过这种方式,行为主义者们发明了代币法,他们用一种特定的类似于扑克筹码的奖励,来训练非人类动物。

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I was watching a poker game once on TV and somebody who lost said, and I quote, "They beat me like an ugly stepchild" and the fate of the ugly stepchild is, in fact, not a very good fate but this is not a good study.

有一次我看电视扑克比赛，一个输的人说，我引用他的话”他们把我像丑陋的继子女一样揍了“,丑陋的继子女的命运，确实不是好命运，但这个研究也不是好研究。

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Our set is going to be covered in playing cards,

我们的场景都是在打扑克牌，

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It is--that's the thing about really good poker players versus less good poker players.

这就是好的扑克玩家,比不那么好的玩家更胜一筹的地方。

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Since the connection with the poker chips is established through classical conditioning, sooner or later by that logic the poker chips would lose their power to serve as reinforcers.

因为与扑克筹码有关的联结,是通过经典条件作用建立的，所以按照这种逻辑,扑克筹码迟早会失去强化物的作用。

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I had made a few bucks playing poker and that's how I started with about eight, ten thousand dollars and I made all this money by borrowing at 90%.

我打扑克牌赚了一些钱,那就是我怎么用八九千美元开始,我的事业的,我用来赚钱的资本都是用以高达90%利率借来的。

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