When they invented fire insurance, in the 1600s, there was a lot of skepticism because anyone can burn down their house.
十七世纪时,人们发明了火险,当时存在很多质疑,因为任何人都可以烧毁他们的房子。
You don't want your house to burn down,
你可不想让你的房子给烧毁,
It's the problem that sometimes people knock over an oil lamp in their home and they burn their own house down.
有时候会出现这种问题,一个人把自己家里的油灯弄翻了,然后把自己的房子点着了
And the cause of some thermodynamics have even been applied to economics, systems out of equilibrium, like big companies like Enron, you know, completely out of equilibrium, crash and burn.
热力学中的一些观点,甚至被应用到经济学中,非平衡态系统,比如像安永那样大公司,彻底偏离平衡态,最后破产了。
Look what happens to Galileo, who was lucky enough not to have been burn on the stake by his friend, the pope.
看看伽利略的遭遇吧,他足够幸运,没有被他的教皇朋友绑在火刑柱上烧死
You ignite the food and burn it, and you see how many degrees centigrade the water gets raised, and that's the measure of calories.
点燃食物使其燃烧,然后观察水的温度上升了多少,就测量了这种食物的卡路里
They burn everything from Europe, everything that's old.
他们烧掉一切来自欧洲的东西,烧掉一切旧物
If only you'd known you had another 50 years, that you weren't going to die young-- or James Dean, going to burn out fast and die young-- if only you'd realized you were going to live to the ripe old age of 97, you would have picked a different life for yourself.
如果你知道自己还剩下50年,你不会英年早逝-,或者说你不会油尽灯枯,英年早逝-,如果你知道,你可以活到97岁高龄,你就会为自己选择另一种生活。
The Salem Fire Corporation showed up with its trucks and watched the house burn, just making sure that it didn't spread.
塞伦消防公司迅速开着消防车来到现场,眼睁睁看着房子烧掉,只是确保它不会蔓延。
Burn coal to make it, catalytic decomposition of methane, you get the hydrogen, where does the carbon go?
通过烧煤得到,催化分解甲烷,可以得到氢,碳去哪儿了?
It could be me that-- my cabin could burn down and I would freeze to death in the winter.
因为也许中招的会是我-,我的房子可能被烧毁,冬天我可能会被冻死。
It's not going to burn any other houses down since it's just completely independent of anything else.
由于火灾是独立事件,他的房子着火了并不会烧毁别人的房子
You burn methane, and it combines with oxygen to form water, to form CO2.
燃烧酒精,酒精分子和氧气结合形成水和二氧化碳。
If the probability is 1 in 1,000 that a house burns down and there are 1,000 houses, then the probability that they all burn down is 1/1000 to the 1000th power, which is virtually zero.
如果一栋房子着火的概率是千分之一,然后假设有1000栋房子,那么这一千栋房子全都着火被烧掉的概率,就等于千分之一的一千次方,基本上就是0了
They said, it's not going to work because you have to decide how much the house is insured for and then anybody--If you ever make a mistake and you insure it for too much, then the people who realize they've got one on the insurance company-- they've insured the house for more than it's worth-- they'll burn down their house and collect the money.
他们说,火险根本无法实施,因为你必须判断,这房子的保价是多少,一旦你出现了一些失误,保价评估得过高,那些意识到他们可能会从,保险公司赚利的人们-,即保险公司的保价高于房子的实际价值-,他们就会烧掉自己的房子来赚钱。
You get sun burn, your skin peels, you lost some items in your body It doesn't really matter.
你被晒伤,脱皮了,你丢失了身体的微粒,但没有关系。
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