These include "pomp and circumstance" from "Othello," "full circle" from "King Lear" and "one fell swoop" from "Macbeth."

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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。

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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？

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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。

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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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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

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