Different former colleague of mine once talked about the prospect of having a kind of heavenly vision of the divine.

一位前任同事曾和我谈及,一种天堂似的,上帝的生活。

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And the prospect of having a lot of time to pursue math problems of a richer and deeper sort seems fairly attractive.

要是能有时间,解决更困难更深奥的数学问题,对我相当有引吸力。

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I want to talk about Kahneman and Tversky's Prospect Theory, which is a very important and a little technical-- psychologists can become mathematical and technical as well.

我会谈到,卡尼曼和特维斯基的前景理论,这是很重要的理论,同时需要一定的数学计算,心理学家也可以精于计算,和擅用技巧

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It has a long boulevard, the Nevski Prospect, very important in 1917.

它拥有一条幽长的林荫大道,这便是有名的涅瓦大街,它见证了一九一七年的二月革命

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So the union of a universalist religion, with a monarch such as the Roman Empire, who ruled a vast empire, could nonetheless have put an end to any prospect of freedom as in other civilizations.

所以说,若是由信普救说者教会,与罗马帝国为代表的君主政体结盟,便会断送,其他文明中存在的自由前景

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Except, when I think about that, and I invite you to think about that, I don't actually find that an especially attractive prospect.

只是当我考虑那种情景时，也请大家一起考虑那种情景，我觉那种情景并非十分诱人。

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You get excited when you're playing chess at the prospect of capturing my queen and crushing me.

在玩象棋的时候,你因为希望,吃掉我的皇后下赢我而感到兴奋

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If they were late, we had the prospect of getting par quickly.

但是如果他们晚了，我们有机会迅速得到票面价值。

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Socrates, who's facing death, isn't distressed at the prospect, but happy.

苏格拉底在面对死亡时,并不哀伤,反而很高兴

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I like Thai food just fine, but the prospect of having Thai food day after day after day-- for thousands, millions, billions, trillions of years no longer seems an attractive proposal.

我也喜欢泰国菜，但是想到日复一日-,吃上几十亿年,看似不再是美妙提议。

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Yet even there, when I imagine an eternity of thinking about math--or for that matter, an eternity of thinking about philosophy, which I obviously like even more than math-- the prospect seems an unattractive one.

即使如此，当我想到让我永远,思考数学问题，或者说，让我永远思考哲学问题，显然和数学相比，我更钟情于它-,但这个提议也变得无趣。

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So until next time,I invite you to think that question through If you're trapped into the prospect of immortality ? what would the best kind of immortal life be like?

在下堂课之前我请你们思考这个问题,如果你们被困在永生的未来中,那最美好的永生会是什么样的？

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And the same way that I indicated previously that although I like chocolate-- I love chocolate--the prospect of having to eat more and more and more and more and more chocolate, eventually the idea becomes a sickening one.

同样适用于我之前的说明,虽然我喜欢巧克力-,我钟爱巧克力，但一想到要吃,更多更多更多的巧克力，最终这个念头变得让人反胃。

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The people who are in the know -know who's trustworthy as a borrower and who has a good prospect of paying it back -but if I go in there ignorantly, I'm going to get stuck with the worst stuff.

那些行家老手们,就知道哪些借款人是可信的,钱借给谁还款的把握比较大,但如果我懵然不知就把钱投进去了,就可能会落得个血本无归的结果

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It was astonishing enough that somebody-- but perhaps understandable--that somebody in that situation would decide to take a class on death and then have himself, submit himself, to my getting up here week after week, there's no prospect for an afterlife, it's a good thing that we're all going to die.

某个，某个处于那种情况下的人-,会决定上一门有关死亡的课,然后一周接一周地让自己来上我的课,忍受我讲的没有来世，我们所有人都会死是好事，这是足够让人震惊的，但也许也是可以理解的。

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