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In the 1950s, the Jamaican census bureau did a breakdown of all of the lawyers in the country according to their skin tone. 下面的图表是对20世纪50年代牙买加律师和国会议员这两种职业以肤色进行的统计分类分类。 Peop
A year after MacMillan published his book, a wave of riots and unrest swept the Caribbean. 在麦克米兰的书出版一年后,动乱席卷了整个加勒比海。 Fourteen people were killed and fifty-nine injured in Trinidad. Fourteen were kille
If you had asked her about her goals for her children, she would have said she wanted us out of there, my mother recalls. 我的母亲回忆说:如果你问她对女儿们的期望,她会说她希望我们离开这里, She didn't feel that Jama
This happened more than fifty years ago, 虽然时间已经过去了50多年, but Bruhn still had a sense of amazement in his voice, as he described what they found. 但一说起这次发现,布鲁恩的语调中依旧透露出惊奇不已的感情
Ericsson and his colleagues then compared amateur pianists with professional pianist. 随后,埃里克森和他的同事又在钢琴业余演奏者和专业演奏家之间作了比较, The same pattern emerged. 得到的情形一模一样。 The
Wasden was clearly nervous: his son was about to play in the biggest game of his life. 温斯登的情绪显得有些紧张激动:他的儿子即将面临生命中最重要的一场比赛, He's had to work very hard for whatever he's got, I'm ver
Let me give you one final example of the hidden opportunities that outliers benefit from. 让我再给你举个例子,看看机遇是如何在不知不觉中惠顾那些出类拔萃之辈的。 Suppose we do another version of the calendar analysis
C-cubed eventually went bankrupt, so Gates and his friends began hanging around the computer center at the University of Washington. 但电脑中心公司最终破产,盖茨和他的同伴开始到华盛顿大学的计算机中心转悠。 Before l
In an average week in those years, I was spending more time in the Computer Center than in my classes. 那时候,我每周待在计算机中心的时间,远远超过我待在教室里面的时间。 All of us down their had this recurring nightma
We sat down and tried to figure out what is the insult that would go to the heart of an eighteen-to-twenty-year old's brain, Cohen says. 我们坐了下来,试图找出什么样的侮辱,会刺激这些18至21岁的年轻人的神经,科恩说,
Combating mitigation has become one of the great crusades in commercial aviation over the past fifteen years. 在过去的15年里,飞行界最大的变革就是改进舒缓语气的使用方式。 Every major airline now has what is called Crew Re
The linguists Ute Fischer and Judith Orasanu, for example, once gave the following hypothetic scenario to a group of captains and first officers and asked them how they would respond: 语言学家乌特费舍和朱迪斯奥若萨驽曾经给一组机长
The captain is desperate: Tell them we are in an emergency! 机长有点绝望:告诉他们我们情况危急! And what does Klotz say? 听听克鲁兹说了些什么? That's right to one-eight-zero on the heading and, ah, we'll try once again.
In the month the glide scope had been under repair, there had been something like 1,500 safe landings at Guam airport. 在跑道射灯进行修理的那个月里,已经有1500架飞机都安全着陆在关岛机场。 It was a small thing-an inconv
Take the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6. Spend 20 seconds memorizing that sequence before saying them out loud again. 看看下面的数字:4、8、5、3、9、7、6,将它们大声读出来,然后背过脸去,用20秒来仔细回
It's a crop that doesn't do very well with something like slavery or wage labor. 但如果耕种稻田的是奴隶或者是拿工资的农民,那么庄稼收成好坏都与农民没有关系,因此庄稼也就不会有很好的收成。 It would
If Canada had a second hockey league for those children born in the last half of the year, it would have twice as many adult hocky stars. 如果加拿大为那些出生在下半年的孩子再来一次曲棍球联赛,现在成人曲棍球明星就会
Here is Marita again, in a passage that is little short of heartbreaking: 下面是玛丽塔又一些让人辛酸的描述: When we first started fifth grade, I used to have contact with one of the girls from my old school, 五年级时,我和一个
The first graders from the wealthiest homes have a 32-point advantage over the first graders from the poorest homes, and by the way, first graders from poor homes in Baltimore are really poor. 来自富裕家庭的一年级学生以32分的优势高于
Now, here is the interesting part. As it turns out, the average number of items answered on the TIMMS questionnaire varies from country to country. 从问卷结果来看,国家间的差异很大,这是个有趣的现象。 It is possible, in fact