This is Hobbes' answer to Machiavelli's famous call in chapter 25 to master fortuna, to master chance or luck, fortune.
这就是霍布斯对马基雅维利那句有名号召的答案,那个号召在第25章中,说的是要掌控命运,掌控机会,掌控运气,掌控时机。
I can tell your fortune if you give me twenty dollars.
如果你给我20美金,我就可以透露你的命运。
CEO Something like 96% of Fortune 500 CEOs get their full severance package, even if they're dismissed for anything other than a major felony.
财富500强中的96%的,即使他们因为除了重罪之外的,任何理由而被解雇,他们也拿到了巨额的解雇费。
Solon, as he looked around at his fabulous wealth and great good fortune, who do you think is the happiest, he said, fortunate man you ever knew?
梭仑看到了他身边无数的财宝,和数不尽的财富,然后回答,"谁是你知道的最幸福,最幸运的人"
We had a good fortune to start it with a very top person in the GDMG, feeling it is a very important initiative within his organization.
我们运气很好,可以从GDMG的,一个顶尖人才开始研究,我们认为这一动机,是他的组织的原动力。
And he had Presidents, He had CEOs of Fortune 500 companies coming spend the weekend with him.
有国家总统,财富500强公司的CEO和他一起过周末。
"They had nothing else from fortune," he says, that "gave them the matter enabling them " to introduce any form they please."
他说:,“他们的时运不外乎机会,那,“提供他们物质,让他们能推行任何他们喜欢的形式“
He was in London, and as I mentioned, he deeded his fortune to the Cambridge University.
正如我提到的,他在伦敦,他把他的财富捐给了剑桥大学。
Then they said, I'm going to ask you a question but before you answer the question I'm going to spin a wheel of fortune.
他们说,接下来我要问一个问题,但是在你们回答之前,我会转幸运轮盘
What they did it--they said, we'll ask you the question and think about it, but while you're thinking about it--don't answer yet -we're going to spin this wheel of fortune.
实验是怎么进行的呢,他们说,我们会问你们问题,考虑一下,先不要回答,我们会转这个幸运轮盘
Some of them only go so far as Athens, which had the good fortune somehow of not being destroyed, one of the few important Mycenaean places that is not destroyed.
有些人逃到了雅典,很幸运的是雅典并没有遭到破坏,它是极少数逃过一劫的迈锡尼重要城邦之一
Most languages around the world have a different word for luck and risk--or luck and fortune.
世上的大多数语言,对运气和风险,或者说运气和机遇,都有另一种表达方式
Now, they perfectly well knew that the wheel of fortune was random.
其实人们都很清楚,幸运转轮是随机过程
As one examines their actions and lives," he writes, "one does not see that they had anything else from fortune than the opportunity which gave them the matter enabling them " to introduce any form they please.
他写到:,“当一个人在检视其行为与生命时“,他们所见的时运,不外乎提供他们,物质的机会,让他们能推行,任何他们喜欢的形式。
The classic experiment that demonstrated anchoring was Kahneman and Tversky--I'm writing K&T -in a wheel of fortune experiment, which they did in 1974.
一个阐述锚定效应的经典实验是,卡尼曼和特维斯基...我用K&T来表示,他们在1974年做了幸运轮盘实验
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