We give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, but at some level, we don't really believe it.

口头上相信我们会死一事，在某种程度上，我们并不真正相信。

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But I know that um, I don't, I'm not superstitious and I don't really believe in luck.

不过，我不是个迷信的人，我并不是真的相信运气。

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So I mean, people can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable but if they don't really believe in it, then they're not going to really work hard and they're not going to even if they're smart guy who doesn't have the relevant experience, they're not going to care enough to develop the relevant experience in order to succeed.

就比如说，一个人不仅聪明,而且也有拿来即用的技能,但是如果对于自己的事业没有认同感，他就不会,百分之百的付出,就算他是属于,缺乏经验但智力超群的那类人，他也不会有意识地,为了成功而积累自身经验。

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But it's often seemed to people that if we really believe that death is the end-- and that's the assumption that I'm making here on out-- if we really believe death is the end, how can death be bad for me?

但是通常我们都会认为死亡就是终结-,我现在所设定的条件就是-,如果我们真的相信死亡就是终点，死亡对我来说有什么不好呢？

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That's not a way that we really think about it, but I do believe that the risk level of the University's portfolio is really quite low in statistical terms -much lower than the risk level that you'd have if you had a traditional portfolio dominated by marketable securities.

这一般不是我们考虑的关键,但我相信,耶鲁投资组合的风险水平,在统计数字上是非常低的,远远低于,持有一个传统的可交易证券主导的,投资组合的beta系数

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