2% You could say, I think my portfolio has an expected return of 12%-- that would be better than if it had an expected return of 10%.

如果一个投资组合的预期收益率有-,那就比一个只有10%的投资组合要好。

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Or would be better that more information and more expression was available but to a smaller audience which is probably the relevant audience for any person?

我们也可以选择将,更多的信息以及状态,仅对与用户有联系的,少部分人开放？

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And from that perspective it looks as though it would be better to know how much time you've got left.

从这个角度来看,你知道自己剩下多少时间似乎更好。

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It would be much better if you had a reference point that didn't care where the pressure was.

我们还需要精确地定义气压,你必须知道气压的大小,当然如果我们能找到一个。

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Or perhaps a better word would be what is it to be reminded of something by something else that resembles it but is not the thing it reminds you of.

更恰当一点的说法是,你是如何因为另一个类似的事物,而不是这个事物本身,联想到这个事物的

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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- On the other hand, we have to ask ourselves-- and this the question that I left us with last time- whether it would really, all things considered, be better to know how much time you had.

另一方面，我们不得不问自己-,这是上一次课我留下来的问题-,从全面考虑，知道你还有多少时间，是不是会更好。

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And against that, we could have the pessimists who say, "The negative side especially once we throw in the negative interaction effects, the negative side is so great that " that it would be better never to have been born at all."

而与此相反，可能有悲观主义者说，“消极的方面,特别是我们一旦把负面相互影响考虑进去，消极的方面就会变得,让我们觉得还是压根别出生的好“

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