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If, as often happens, children are of different shades of color in a family, the Jamaican sociologist Fernando Henriques once wrote: 正如经常发生的那样,如果一个家庭里的孩子们的肤色深浅不同,牙买加社会学家费尔南多
They lived the much easier life of working in the house. 她们在房子里工作, They were the ones most likely to be freed. 享受安逸的生活。 So many mulatto mistresses were left substantial fortunes in the wills of white property owners 她们
Daisy Nation was from the northwestern end of Jamaica. 戴西纳森来自牙买加的西北边陲, Her great-grandfather was William Ford. 他伟大的祖父是威廉福特, He was from Island, and he arrived in Jamaica in 1784, having bought a c
Barnsley went home at night, 回家之后的那个晚上, and looked at the birth dates of as many professional hockey players as he could find. 巴恩斯利尽可能地收集了许多职业曲棍球运动员的出生日期, He saw the same patte
This is a book about outliers, 这是一本谈论那些与众不同之人的书, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. 这些与众不同的男人或者女人,他们的成就超越了常人。 Over the course of the chap
This is a book about outliers, 这是一本谈论那些与众不同之人的书, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. 这些与众不同的男人或者女人,他们的成就超越了常人。 Over the course of the chap
This was the 1950s, years before the advent of cholesterol lowering drugs and aggressive prevention of heart disease. 在20世纪50年代,预防和治疗心脏病的降胆固醇药物和侵入性治疗方法都还没有出现, Heart attacks were
Here is how one history of the period describes the advent of time-sharing: 让我们看看当时的历史文献是如何描绘分时系统的优势: This was not just a revolution. It was a revelation. 这不仅仅是一项革命,并且是新的起
In the early 1970s, when Joy was learning about programing, computers were the size of rooms. 20世纪70年代初期,一台计算机差不多有一间房子那么大,那时候的乔伊还在学习编程。 A single machine, which might have less
That initial difference in maturity doesn't go away with time. 最初年龄带来的差异到此时依旧没有消除掉, It persists. 还在继续发挥影响。 And for thousands of students, that initial disadvantage is the difference between go
That's the perfect birth date! Gates is the hockey player born on January 1. Gates's best friend of Lakeside was Paul Allen. 这是黄金出生时间!盖茨就是出生在1月1日的曲棍球运动员!盖茨在湖边学校最好的朋友便是保罗
And the bands will play all the time to catch the passing traffic. 为了吸引过往的人们,乐队的演出不能停下来, In an American red-light district, they will call it nonstop striptease. 就像美国红灯区的脱衣舞表演一样,
The majority had careers that could only be considered ordinary, 大部分人的生活只能说是平庸无奇, and a surprising number ended up with careers that even Terman considered failures. 很多人的事业令人惊讶地草草收场,就连
Brick. Building things, throwing. 砖块:用于建造物体;做投掷物用。 Blanket. Keeping warm, smothering fire, tying to tress and sleeping in (as a hammock), improvised stretcher. 毛毯:保暖,隔离空气灭火;绑在树上睡觉(
We took factory jobs and minor civil service positions and eventually became a bouncer in a bar on Long Island,他当过工厂工人,也当过政府底层公务员,最后在长岛的一家酒吧当保安,which was his principle occupation throu
What does the story of Chris Langan tell us? 里斯.兰根的故事说明了什么? His explanations, as heartbreaking as they are, are also a little strange. 和那些悲伤的往事一样,他述说的一切令人伤感,但又令人觉得惊异。
When he was nine, he once told one of his cousins, ask me a question in Latin and I will answer you in Greek.9岁那年,他对堂兄妹们说:你们用拉丁文问我一个问题,我就能用希腊语回答你们。 Oppenheimer went to Harvard
Oppenheimer, by rights, was a long shot. He was just thirty-eight, and junior to many of the people whom he would have to manage. 选择奥本海默,确实是大胆的尝试。当时奥本海默38岁,比格罗夫斯手下的很多人都要年轻;
What was the difference between the As and the Cs? Terman ran through every conceivable explanation. 是什么造成A组和C组如此大的区别?特曼找了一切能想到的原因试图解答这个疑问。 He looked at their mental and physical
Let's start with school-year gains. That is how many points students' test score's rise from the time they started classes in September to the time they stopped in June. 让我们从学校这一年所获得的分数开始。下面表格中的数据显示